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Enable Auto-Complete feature to fill in a form

How to enable the Auto Complete feature to automatically fill in PDF form fields in Foxit PDF Editor.

Answer

Support for Foxit PDF Editor v11 and v12 has been discontinued as of August 13, 2025. Upgrade to v14 to continue receiving support.

 

The Auto-Complete feature stores any entries that you typed in a PDF form field, and then suggests or even automatically enters responses that match your typing in other form fields. The suggestions appear in a pop-up menu, from which you can select a match.

To enable the auto-complete form filling feature,do as follows:

For Foxit PDF Editor V11 and greater

  1. In File tab, choose Preferences.
  2. In Forms panel, select Basic or Advanced from the drop-down list under Auto-Complete.
  3. Click on OK to apply the change.

Following is an introduction to the functions of the Auto-Complete related options:

Auto-Complete: Auto-Complete includes three options that allow you to turn on
or off the auto-complete feature. When enabled, Foxit PDF Editor will store your
entries and provide relevant suggestions as you fill in an interactive PDF form.
Basic: Enable auto-complete feature, and provide relevant suggestions when
you enter a character in the interactive form field.
Advanced: Enable auto-complete feature, and automatically display a list of
suggestions when you tab into a form field.
Remember numerical data: This option is available when you choose Basic
or Advanced in the Auto-Complete drop-down list. If it is enabled, Foxit PDF
Editor will store numerical entries as well, otherwise, only text entries will be
remembered.
Edit Entry list: Remove the saved entries from the auto-complete memory

 

For Foxit PhantomPDF V10

  1. In File tab, choose Preferences.
  2. In Forms panel, select Basic or Advanced from the drop-down list under Auto-Complete.
  3. Click on OK to apply the change.

Following is an introduction to the functions of the Auto-Complete related options:

Auto-Complete: Auto-Complete includes three options that allow you to turn on or off the auto-complete feature. When enabled, Foxit PhantomPDF will store your entries and provide relevant suggestions as you fill in an interactive PDF form.
Off: Turn off the auto-complete feature. No suggestion will be provided when you fill in an interactive PDF form.

Basic: Enable auto-complete feature, provide relevant suggestions when you enter a character in the interactive form field.

Advanced: Enable auto-complete feature, provide relevant suggestions when
you enter a character in the interactive form field and also could automatically display a list of
suggestions when you tab into a form field.

Remember numerical data: This option is available when you choose Basic or Advanced in the Auto-Complete drop-down list.

If it is enabled, Foxit PhantomPDF will store numerical entries as well, otherwise, only text entries will be remembered.

Edit Entry list: Remove the saved entries from the auto-complete memory.

 

For Foxit PhantomPDF V9.7 to V6.0

  1. In File menu, choose Preferences.
  2. In Forms panel, check the option Enable Autocomplete.
  3. Click on OK to apply the change.