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Foreword

This clarification refers to the version LibreOffice vi.

The video ″Ein ausfüllbares Formular erstellen V6″-[DE] ("Create a fillable form V6") links to this page here for more information and details.

The document used in the video can be downloaded hither.

Link to the video

Link to the video [in German DE]:

"Ein ausfüllbares Formular erstellen in Author - LibreOffice half-dozen"

Create a sales contract form

LibreOffice half dozen - Create a buy contract as a fillable form in Author as ODT and consign to PDF for employ.

Use existing document for the course

To show how to create a fillable class, we take a ready-made ODT file Bill of sale almost used item_V6.odt.

The captions and required text passages have already been created in this file.

The contained "framed boxes" are all tables.

Controls (fillable fields) insert

Toolbar: Form Controls - (LO-half-dozen.ii.iii.2)

In Author we can now insert so-chosen controls in the open file.

To practise this we select the carte ▸ ▸ and get the toolbar, see moving-picture show right:

Here the text field is often used - Beispiel: Textfeld.

Typhoon mode

The Form Controls toolbar has the Design Way Switch icon .

This switches to the "Edit form fields" or "View form fields" work manner.

If the control icons are greyed out, click on "Pattern Mode" toggle.

Text box(es)

To insert a text field into the grade, click on the "Text field" icon.

The cursor changes its appearance, becomes a crosshair with a minor rectangle adjacent to it.

We position the crosshairs on the imaginary upper left corner of the text field to be created.

Holding downward the left mouse push, we open a text box and permit go.

The sidebar should exist visible (Carte ▸ should have a checkmark), otherwise click on it.

In the sidebar, click the "Sidebar Settings" icon to make the properties sidebar visible).

There the width and height of the text field tin can be adjusted, if the text field was raised and marked.

Double-clicking on the text field opens the Dialog "Properties: Text Box".

Here also the width and height can exist set, as well equally farther specifications for the text field are fabricated.

For our course we set the height of all text fields to 0.60 cm.

The width is adapted to the circumstances.

For the given tiptop of 0.60 cm the font "Calibri" and a font size of 9 pt are set.

In order to avert having to accommodate all values for the text fields, nosotros copy the inserted text field and insert the adjacent placeholder.

For a clear assignment of the text fields, the name of the text field should be changed (for example: text field 1, text field 2, text field 3, etc.).

So now all required text fields are inserted and maybe fifty-fifty in width notwithstanding adapted.

Here are the entries for the text fields:

Entries for :	Text field 1 bis 12	Text field thirteen bis sixteen	Text field 17 bis nineteen	Text field twenty bis 22	Text field 23 bis 25	Text field 26	Text field 27 bis 29
Font	Calibri	Calibri	Calibri	Calibri	Calibri	Calibri	Calibri
Font size	ix	9	9	9	9	ix	ix
Text highlighting	Default	Default	Default	Default	Default	Default	Default
Width	8,00 cm	13,60 cm	sixteen,threescore cm	16,60 cm	16,lx cm	13,60 cm	6,60 cm
Height	0,sixty cm	0,60 cm	0,60 cm	0,threescore cm	0,lx cm	0,sixty cm	0,60 cm

Numeric Field(south)

We'll click on the "Class Controls" toolbar on the symbol "Numeric Field" .

This is required for the stated EURO amounts (shown in numbers, for example 200.00).

This excludes that a text is entered from provided.

We besides adjust the numerical fields in peak, width and font, like the text fields in the Dialog box: "Properties: Numeric Field".

Here the orientation is gear up to "Left".

Here are the entries for the numerical fields:

Entries for:	Numeric field ane	Numeric field 2
Font	Calibri	Calibri
Font size	9	9
Text highlighting	Default	Default
Width	v,xx cm	v,20 cm
Elevation	0,60 cm	0,lx cm

Date field(south)

Furthermore, nosotros nevertheless need three appointment fields.

Dazu klicken wir auf das Symbol "Date field" and pull up a field.

The farther adjustments in the dialog box:

"Properties: Appointment Field" nosotros take, as stated above, before.

Alignment hither also "left".

For the "date format" nosotros indicate in the dialog box "DD/MM/YYYY".

Here are the other entries for the date fields:

Entries for:	Date field ane	Date field ii	Appointment field 3
Font	Calibri	Calibri	Calibri
Font size	ix	9	9
Text highlighting	Default	Default	Default
Width	6,lx cm	six,60 cm	6,60 cm
Höeight	0,60 cm	0,60 cm	0,threescore cm

Simultaneous change to multiple course fields

Form Navigator Properties menu

Properties Multiselection dialog

You tin also change the properties of multiple form fields at the aforementioned time.

Select ▸ from the menu.

In the Course Navigator dialog, select the grade fields y'all want to modify.

You can exercise this with ⇧ Shift +Click, each time on a form characterization.

Then right-click on one of the form labels and select "Backdrop" from the context menu.

In the "Properties: Multiselection" dialog, you can at present change the desired properties.

For example, set the background colour to orange.

Save certificate

After all fields take been inserted, the document must at present be saved under a new name if possible, for instance: "Bill of auction well-nigh used item_V6 - fillable.odt".

Consign PDF / Relieve

Create PDF form

In the next step, nosotros conclude with Writer ▸ ▸ .

In the Dialog that opens "PDF Options" be careful that at a check mark is placed.

Nosotros click on .

In the following Dialogue box "Consign" we select our storage location, enter a name and click on .

Now we can close Writer.

Create a hybrid PDF

To create a hybrid PDF

Make full out the PDF form

We now open the exported PDF file (see: Used working documents) and can now fill out the form.

Subsequently the completed filling it is essential to relieve the PDF file under a new name, e.g. "My completed course".

Additional Information

Possible controls

Toolbar: Form Controls - (LO-vi.2.iii.2)

Drop-Down-Menu: More Controls

Size combinations for text fields

The Class Controls and Other Controls toolbars permit you cull from a diversity of controls:

Label
Text Box
Check Box
Choice Push
List Box
Philharmonic Box
Push button
Image Button
Formatted Field
Engagement Field
Numeric Field
Group Box

Select from the Form Controls toolbar the Symbol "More than Controls". Yous have in the "More Controls"-toolbar any other choses "▼".

Time Field
Currency Field
Pattern Field
Navigation Bar
Imagel Control
File Pick

And select from the "More Controls" toolbar, click the downwardly arrow. And you have any other choses "▼".

Spin Button
Scrollbar

Used working documents

working certificate used

Pecker of sale about used item_V6.odt

Beak of sale well-nigh used item_V6 - fillable.odt

Neb of sale well-nigh used item_V6 - fillable.pdf

Notes on the forms used here

                      Note:                    Every bit the footing of this form the grade "Allgemeiner Kaufvertrag von privat" of          markt.de          was used and can exist downloaded for gratis by anyone.

Please refer: http://www.markt.de/contentId,AllgemeinerKaufvertrag/inhalt.htm at that place at "Allgemeiner Kaufvertrag von privat - Muster zum Download".

The grade used here is only a demonstration of how fillable forms can be created in LibreOffice.

The Document Foundation and the editor Hrbrgr (talk) 2018-03-06T19:22:22 (UTC) of these forms are not responsible for the use of these contract forms, this is at their ain responsibility.

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Dependence of the height of the fields on the font size

When using the command fields, brand sure that there is a dependency betwixt font size and blazon with the field height.

In our example of utilise, the font "Calibri" and font size of "ix betoken" were used for the "Text fields", "Numeric fields" and "Engagement fields".

Some combinations with font size and type and field height

Examples, see picture: Size combinations for text fields

The values practice not e'er agree 100%.

If in doubt, a test with the desired combination of font, size, etc. should be carried out beforehand.

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