PDFelement - Edit, Annotate, Fill and Sign PDF Documents
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Follow these steps to convert paper, Word, Excel, and other files into fillable PDF forms in PDFelement.
Open PDFelement and choose "Create PDF" box to browse to the file you'd like to convert to an interactive PDF form. You can convert numerous file types into PDF including Microsoft Word or Excel documents, non-interactive PDFs, and even scanned paper documents.
PDFelement will automatically detect and create interactive form fields from the file you've uploaded. Most legible form fields can be detected and created automatically. If PDfelement cannot detect a particular form field automatically, you can quickly and easily add your own.
If the file you are working with is unable to be recognized to automatically create the fillable fields, PDFelement 6 offers the ability to create a fillable form manually. PDFelement 6 uses a group of buttons that can be used to create and design form fields in interactive forms. You are able to add text fields, check boxes, radio buttons, combo boxes, list boxes and buttons to create an interactive PDF form.
you can click the "Form">"Form Edit" button to changes the properties of the form. Double click the box to open the Properties dialog box, or right-click the box to choose Properties to open it. For different fields or boxes, you will get different properties. Here is an example of the Text Field Properties:
After setting the changes as you want, click the "Close Form Editing" button, you can start to fill in the form directly. Then you can go to "File" menu to "Save" the file. These are all the steps you need to take to Create Fillable PDF from Word/Excel.