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Collecting form data by email
After you've created a PDF form that contains form fields and an email-based submit
button, you can use the Initiate Form Data Collection Workflow command to quickly
distribute the form to others via email. Once a form recipient has filled in the PDF form,
they're automatically guided step-by-step to ensure that their form data is returned to the
email address specified by the email-based submit button. (To create an email-based
submit button, see Creating Acrobat submit buttons.)
After you've received multiple sets of form data for a particular PDF form that
you've distributed, you can organize the form data into a spreadsheet file. (See Creating a
spreadsheet from form data.)
To collect form data by email:
1. Open a PDF file that contains form fields and an email-based submit button.
2. Do one of the following to display the Initiate Data File Collection Workflow dialog box:
● Choose Initiate Form Data Collection Workflow from the Form Tasks menu in the
Tasks toolbar.
● Choose Advanced > Forms > Initiate Form Data Collection Workflow.
● Choose File > Form Data > Initiate Form Data Collection Workflow.
3. Do one of the following, according to the dialog box that appears:
● Click Next if the Initiate Form Data Collection Workflow dialog box appears.
● Click Close if the Form Fields And Email Submit Button Required dialog box appears.
You must add form fields and an email-based submit button to your PDF file before you
can use the form data collection workflow. (See Creating forms from scratch.)
● Click Close if the Email Submit Button Required dialog box appears. You must add an
email-based submit button that was created in Designer or Acrobat Professional to your
PDF form file before you can use the form data collection workflow. (See Creating
Acrobat submit buttons.)
4. Type the email address of each person you want to receive the PDF form in the Invite
Recipients box, and type a comma between email addresses.
5. If you want to edit the message that the form recipients receive, edit the text in the
Preview Invitation box.
6. Click Send Invitation.
Related Subtopics:
Creating a spreadsheet from form data