How to Fill in PDF Forms

Terry Grover from Terry Grover computer consulting in Portland Maine today we're going to fill out some forms have you ever downloaded a form from the internet or received one by email you are instructed to print the form fill it out by hand stick it in an envelope or if you're technically savvy you like fill it up by hand put it on your scanner scan it into your computer and then email either way you've spent a lot more time than you needed to to fill out this form so let's learn how Adobe Reader can help us fill out the form right on the computer if you don't have a dhobi reader go get it online you're going to go to WWE com go here to the download link and click on Adobe Reader Adobe automatically recognizes what kind of computer you're running what operating system and gives you the correct version be sure whenever you are downloading the program that you check carefully around the page and uncheck all of those optional offers offers to change your search engine offers to put in extra programs all the things you don't need and often are not good for your computer then simply click install now go through the process and you will have Adobe Reader the latest version now back to our form what I want to do is fill out this form it's just a typical form that was created for in this case of Church auction all I have to do here is go up to the right hand side in the upper corner and notice these three buttons that we always ignore an Adobe Reader I want you to click sign when I get this the fill and sign box open notice I can add check text I can add check marks which are often necessary I can initial and even put my signature on this form right now I'm going to add text so I'm going to click add text notice what happens this add text button appears here I can change the font I can change the size I can do anything I want I'm going to take my cursor and I'm going to click it right here where I want to type my name and Here I am see and all I have to do is pull it here perhaps I'm going to sell at the auction a painting and I can continue to do that let's say here I want my letters to be smaller I can make them smaller and say this is a painting that completed whatever you'd like to do when you're all done all you have to do is file save as and simply name your form there it comes we're going to save as whatever we would like to save it as and to email it simply click on the envelope that says save file as email attachment it is going to automatically connect to your desktop email program whether you use Outlook or Apple Mail or Windows Live Mail or here in Windows 8 the mail app it's simply going to open a new email and attach this automatically and that's all there is to filling in PDFs thanks

Channel: Terri Grover

Views: 645,709

Keywords: Portable Document Format (File Format), PDF/A (File Format), how to use pdfs

Id: LEz888Biqq0

Length: 3min 42sec (222 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 02 2013