Custom Forms Editor Options
Introduction
The custom forms editor offers several options that help you format your form and 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
These options let you create, edit, or delete tables.
Field | Description |
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
Field | Description |
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:
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
Field | Description |
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
Field | Description |
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. |
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
Field | Description |
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 (
- 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.
) – This will undo your most recent change. You can click this option multiple times to undo more changes.