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How to Make a PDF Form on Windows (Windows 10 Included)

Need to make a PDF form for your company, but do not know how? Yes, indeed, if you're not familiar with PDF forms, it would be quite hard for you, especially one with interactive fields. Actually, there are some tips and tricks for making a PDF form. Instead of making a PDF form from scratch, you can also easily make your own stylish PDF forms by using PDF form templates downloaded from the Internet. This article will not only introduce you a great PDF form maker but also teach you how to make a PDF form on Windows.

Part 1Best PDF Form Maker for Windows

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Wondershare PDFelement is a professional PDF form creator and editor. It gives you the possibility of creating personalized PDF forms with a variety of text fields and buttons, editing forms and the properties of items, filling both interactive and non-interactive forms and signing PDF forms with digital signatures.

Actually PDFelement is a powerful PDF editor and converter. It lets you edit PDF text and images like you would on a Word processor, insert, delete, and extract PDF pages with simple clicks, review and comment on PDF files with stamps, shapes, and text tools and convert PDF to Word, Excel, PPT, Epub and more to repurpose PDF content.

Part 2Steps for Making a PDF Form on Windows

Download and install this PDF form making software on your computer. It is fully compatible with Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. If you have a Mac computer, please try Wondershare PDFelement for Mac.

Step 1. Make PDF Form from Template

It is much easier to make a PDF form from a template than start from scratch. In this case, before you begin to make your PDF form, try to download a similar PDF form from the Internet or from our template page. After downloading, run PDFelement and click "Open" to import the template you've downloaded.

Step 2. Fill in PDF Forms

If the PDF template you're using is a form with interactive fields, the program will automatically detect it. You just need to click the "Highlight Fields" button on the top and then click to type in text; If it's non-interactive form, click the "Add Text" button under the "Edit" tab and place the text block where you want it to be and type in text.

Step 3. Make a PDF Form from Blank Document

If you want to start creating your PDF form from a blank document, you need to go to the "File" menu and choose "New". Then you need to add interactive fields such as text field, buttons and lists etc. Go to the "Forms" tab select an item you need and move mouse over the PDF form to draw it.

Step 4. Edit PDF Forms

After you add an interactive field, you can click the "Edit Form" button and then double click any item to enable the Properties setting dialogue box on which you are able to set style, name and layout for the added field.

Note: All the tools in the "Forms" menu are for interactive fields creating & editing, data importing and exporting. To use these tools, you should click the "Edit Form" to enable the editing mode.

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Published: May 19,2015 10:37 am / Updated: Aug 30,2016 15:00 pm

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