Custom Forms Editor Options
General
The custom forms editor offers several options the help you format your form and your text.
Available Options

Let’s first go over the top menus:

Tools

Source code – This option will open the HTML source code of the document.
Word count – This option will open word count statistics for the form.
Table

Table – This lets you choose a table size and insert the table at the cursor position inside the edit area.
Cell – This gives you options to change cell properties in an inserted table.
Row – This give you options to change row properties inside an inserted table.
Column – This gives you options to alter column properties inside an inserted table.
Table properties – This option lets you change the properties of an inserted table.
Delete table – This lets you delete an inserted table.
Format

Bold – This will make text bold.
Italic – This will italicize text.
Underline – This will underline text.
Strikethrough – This will strike through text.
Superscript – This will convert text to a superscript.
Subscript – This will convert text to a subscript.
Code – This will convert text to a block of code.
Formats – This gives a list of predefined text formats. Highlight a selection of text and choose a format to reformat it.
Blocks – This gives a list of predefined text blocks. Highlight a selection of text and choose a block to turn it into a text block.
Fonts – This will select the font of the text.
The following is a list of fonts that may be used in DOCX and HTML type forms, that will work when the form is generated as a PDF:
- Andale Mono
- Arial
- Arial Black
- Book Antiqua
- Calibri
- Comic Sans MS
- Courier New
- Georgia
- Helvetica
- Impact
- Tahoma
- Terminal
- Times New Roman
- Trebuchet MS
- Verdana
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- Palatino
- Garamond
- Bookman
- Avant Garde
Note: The last four fonts listed are not shown in the list of available fonts in the text editor but still may be used in forms as they are cross-platform safe fonts.
Font sizes – This will select the size of the text.
Align – This will select the alignment of the text.
Text color – This will select the color of the text.
Background color – This will select the background or highlight color of the text.
Clear formatting – This will remove formatting from selected text.
View

Source code – This option will open the HTML source code of the document.
Visual aids – This will show a pseudo-border around table cells.
Show invisible characters – This will reveal any hidden characters (e.g. nonbreaking space).
Show blocks – This will show a dashed outline around div and paragraph elements inside the edit field.
Preview – This will give a preview of the form with HTML elements looking more like the should in the finished form.
Fullscreen – This option expands the edit field so it takes up the full screen.
Insert

Image – This option lets you insert images into your form.
Link – This option lets you create hyperlinks in your form. Since these may not work properly when the form has been converted to a PDF, we recommend you do not add hyperlinks in your forms.
Media – This option lets you insert media (video, audio, etc.) into the text. This is more applicable in other areas of the software where this text editor is found.
Insert template – There are no options for creating templates.
Table – This lets you choose a table size and insert the table at the cursor position inside the edit area.
Special character – This option lets you add characters that don’t appear on your keyboard to the form.
Emoticons – This option lets you add emoticons to the form.
Horizontal line – This option lets you add a horizontal line that spans the form.
Page break – This option inserts a page break into your form.
Nonbreaking space – This option will let you insert a nonbreaking space character into your form.
Anchor – This option lets you add an HTML anchor to your form. Since this won’t work properly once the form has been converted to a PDF, we recommend you do not add anchors to your form.
Date/time – This option lets you insert the current date and time into your form. This is not a dynamic value.
Edit

Undo – This will undo your most recent change. You can click this option multiple times to undo more changes.
Redo – This will redo the most recent undone change.
Cut – This will remove selected content from the edit field, but make it available to be pasted into the document.
Copy – This will copy selected content in the edit field.
Paste – This will add cut or copied content into the edit field at the cursor position.
Paste as text – This will add cut or copied content into the edit field at the position of the cursor, but will disregard any formatting data the content contains.
Select all – This will select all the content in the edit field.
Find and replace – This will find a specified text string in the edit field and replace it with a specified text string.
There are also options that aren’t contained in the top menus. These include:

- Undo (
) – This will undo your most recent change. You can click this option multiple times to undo more changes.
- Redo (
) – This will redo the most recent undone change.
- Formats – This gives a list of predefined text formats. Highlight a selection of text and choose a format to reformat it.
- Bold (
) – This will make text bold.
- Italic (
) – This will italicize text.
- Text align left (
) – This will align text to the left.
- Text align center (
) – This will center align text.
- Text align right (
) – This will align text to the right.
- Justify text (
) – This will full justify the text so it is both right and left aligned insofar as that’s possible.
- Bullet (
) – This will create a bulleted list outline style.
- Numbered List (
) – This creates number list outline style.
- Decrease Indent (
) – This decrease the indent of a line or section.
- Increase Indent (
) – This increases the indent of a line or section.
- Link (
) – This will insert a link into the text.
- Table (
) – This lets you choose a table size and insert the table at the cursor position inside the edit area.
- Page break (
) – This option inserts a page break into your form.
- Preview (
) – This will give a preview of the form with HTML elements looking more like the should in the finished form.
- Image (
) – This option lets you insert images into your form.
- Text color (
)– This will select the color of the text.
- Background color (
) – This will select the background or highlight color of the text.
- Source code (
) – This option will open the HTML source code of the document.
- Fullscreen (
) – This option expands the edit field so it takes up the full screen.