What is the best way to draft forms in MS Word that form wizard will recognize

[BobH_SLOAPCD]

I've tried a variety of methods for build forms in Word but I can't find a good way to make a Word doc that Phantom will process to build a form.

Table cells with underlines sort of works but the underlining is not correctly align with the create form field (underline is indented on both ends.) Is this a known feature? Fix available?

ActiveX text boxes are not recognize. Standard drawing text boxes are not recognized.

I suppose plain text spaces with underscores may work, but I'd like the form to be useful in Word as well as being a base document for PDF forms.

Is there another Word feature that converts well to PDF forms?

Is there a techniques blog that might cover this?

Thanks!

[cherry]

Hi BobH_SLOAPCD,

For the mentioned problems:
1) Version info of your Word and PhantomPDF;
2) "Table cells with underlines sort of works but the underlining is not correctly align with the create form field (underline is indented on both ends.) Is this a known feature? Fix available?"
Cherry: Please make a screenshot that shows the underlining is not correctly align with the create form field so we could know the issue intuitively. How did you convert the Word document into PDF form?
3) "ActiveX text boxes are not recognize. Standard drawing text boxes are not recognized."
Cherry: Please include a screenshot that shows the problem and mark it out;
4) Have you try with the "Run Form Field Recognition" or "Designer Assistant" feature under "Form" menu?
5) Please provide the original Word form and the created PDF form on your side for taking a closer look at.

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