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Re: Tagging Form Fields in PDF?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jan 22, 2020 6:46PM

Moving tagged annotations from the bottom of the tags tree as shown in the video is painstaking. My recommendation is to use the find feature to find the annotation, then select the correct place in the tags tree and then tag the annotation and Adobe Acrobat Pro will place the annotation under the correct location. Then repeat. It's important to make sure you select the correct tag in the tag tree for the location after the next annotation has been found -- not before or it will lose the place. This saves some time -- but I suspect the biggest issue with people not wanting to tag form fields is this step of making sure the form elements and OBJ elements are in the correct location -- but it's something that has to be done. Tagging form fields up front when the form is created by Checking the "Tag annotations" context menu option from the tag tree will make sure they get put in when the form fields are created in Acrobat -- same for links.

Jonathan