Protecting some of the form fields

I have set up auto-populating of form fields in an Acrobat Pro 9.0 form. A selection from a drop down (a company name) auto-populates the address, phone number fields, etc. How can I lock or protect the address and phone fields so that someone can't manually change them? Thanks.

Just make the fields read-only, assuming you never want to allow the user to enter their own values. You can do this using the tab of the Field properties dialog that shows the field name.

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You would be able to develop the kind of forms you are referring to .
You could refer to the following document to get more information about Acrobat DC .
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If in case you are referring to any particular issue or problem or if you face any regarding Acrobat DC ,we are always here to help you with that .
Please feel free to write us back .
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