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turning a word doc into a fillable pdf form

I made a form in Word with blank lines for name, address and so on. I want people to fill it in on their computer as a PDF. Is there a way to make those fields fillable without Acrobat Pro?
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kate.pratt Oct 29, 2026
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LibreOffice. It's free. Open your Word doc in LibreOffice Writer, turn on the Form Controls toolbar (View > Toolbars), and draw a text box over each blank line. Then File > Export as PDF and tick Create PDF form. Those boxes become fillable fields. Word's own Save as PDF won't do it, you just get the lines as plain text with nothing to type into. Test the result in a normal PDF reader before sending it round, the tab order sometimes comes out odd.
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