Unlink forms in Professional

Question

I have a document that is several pages of the same form (9 copies of one form, with the only difference being page #s). I have inserted form fields, and because each form is identical, I copied and pasted the form fields. As a result, what is entered into the form on page 1 is automatically inserted into the form fields on the other pages. Is there any way I can keep that auto-fill from happening without individually renaming each form field? Each form has nearly 40 form fields and I'm trying to save myself a lot of tedious work. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.
Laura

Answer 1

If you can start from your original form, you can run the following script in the interactive JavaScript console (Ctrl+J):
// Set the page number to duplicate
templatePageNum = 0;
// Make the page a template
var t = createTemplate({cName: "template1", nPage: templatePageNum});
// Create a new page based on the template and rename the fields
var xO = t.spawn({nPage: numPages, bRename: true, bOverlay: false});
// Create another page
t.spawn({nPage: numPages, bRename: true, bOverlay: false, oXObject: xO});
// Create another page
t.spawn({nPage: numPages, bRename: true, bOverlay: false, oXObject: xO});
You will have to change the first line from 0 to the page number that you want to duplicate. Note that page numbers in scripting are zero-based, so the first page is page 0, the second is page 1, etc.
To run the script, paste the code above into the JavaScript console, select all of it so that it is all highlighted, and press Ctrl+Enter.
The script will add three duplicate pages to the end of the document and the field names will be automatically renamed, which will prevent the problem of the data being duplicated. You can move the pages if needed.