Populating dates in a PDF form
I am fairly new to Acrobat, so there may be a way to do this. I have an Excel form that I need to convert to a fillable PDF form. The problem I'm having is that I need a date to populate some fields when it is entered in a different field. I have a pay period and I need to have the days of the pay period populate when the person fills in the "starting date" field. In other words, when someone puts a date on the starting date line, I need for all fo the other days' dates to fill in automatically. If this can't be done, please let me know so I don't tear any MORE hair out trying to figure it out!!
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