Problems resizing form fields

I have not had this problem before and have been using form field in Acrobat Pro for years. All of the sudden, I cannot resize the form fields to any size I want. Nor can I put the fields in any place I want. I used to be able to move and resize in miniscule increments, and now, the fields act as if they are locked to a grid on the page - thus not allowing me to be able to put the fields anywhere I want. With the resizing, it is quite similar in that I can't resize smoothly - the resize jumps in blocks.
Anyone else now experiencing this problem? I haven't changed any of the preferences. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you. I feel like an idiot! And I'm gonna smack around whoever changed that on my machine (which I do share with other office staff). I really appreciate the advice!

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d as being capable of
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friends ..
i had problem with currency field in smartform iam printing 5 currecny
fields after the main window .But not getting printed on right way gets printed down from the given mesaurement and i get lot of gap betwen the
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I'm working with Acrobat X Pro on a Windows PC platform. I've been working with a file that was originally created in CorelDraw X3, in landscape orientation. That document was then saved as a pdf and set up with many form fields (it's an order form). The document needed to be updated with minor changes made in the Corel file. I resaved as a pdf and now want to transfer the existing form fields from the old document into the newly revised one. I've tried copy/paste, but have to do small sections at a time because the program doesn't let me bring in all of the fields at the same time. I then tried Document > Replace page, which I've seen described in other forum posts; but when I do that, the entire set of fields comes in rotated at 90 degrees counterclockwise. I did read that if the original document was created in a different orientation, that could affect how the fields paste in, but that is not the case here. The original file, and all successive pdf files all have been the same orientation. I'm boggled and think that there has to be an easier way than copying fields, a section at a time, and resizing them all over again.
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