How to insert multiple items in a drop-down lists?

[meggn]

Working in Acrobat v9

I have some pretty long lists that I'd like to put in a set of drop-down combo boxes. Is there some way I can do a multiple insert (copy & paste from Excel would be great) or am I truly limited to doing the entries only one at a time?

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

[barcoder]

Hmmm, maybe you could populate your combobox with javascript? I saw somewhere a tutorial where someone populated comboboxe´s items from txt-file.

[gaf]

i tried to do this originally, but it is a long difficult process that requires some knowledge of javascript, in the end i just entered all the details i needed 1 by 1, it took around 4 hours, but in the long run it will save a lot more

i did come across a video tutorial for acrobat forms from lynda.com which touched upon that, but not as detailed as i was comfortable with, thats why i didn't attempt it

[barcoder]

One idea came in to my mind (for future needs). You could do your combobox in excel if you have all the stuff there. Then save it as html and open that html-file into Acrobat (File>Create PDF>From Webpage)

That CB should be there and you can copy/paste it to your final destination-docment with Acrobat´s CB-tool... I have not tested this method but I can´t see any reason why it shouldnt work...

Here is some advice for excel-part of workflow:
http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/questions/create_combo.php