Viewing a PDF form

When you open a form that someone sends you to fill out, a document message bar appears between the Acrobat toolbars and the form itself.

The left side of the message bar typically displays instructions about how to complete and return the form. If you open the form in Adobe Reader, the usage rights associated with that form are also described in this area. You can hide or show the document message bar by clicking the button .

The right side of the message bar has one or more buttons. The first is a Highlight Fields button, which colors the backgrounds of all blanks to be filled in and outlines any required blanks, making it easy to see them at a glance.

You navigate and adjust views of a form in exactly the same way that you do in ordinary PDFs.

Note: You can change the default settings for highlight color, whether forms open with the document message bar visible or hidden, and other viewing options in the Forms Preferences. Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Acrobat > Preferences (Mac OS), and select Forms under Categories.