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How to build a flow to fill PDF forms?

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I have a fillable PDF form with 5 fields like First Name, Last Name, Age, Email and Contact no. and all these are recorded in an excel (xlsx) in a data table format with the same headers.

Now I want to use that data table from excel to fill the fillable PDF. Any help on the foundation would be super helpful as the Power Automate desktop application is unable to detect the fillable text boxes to "Type in texts" and hence would like to know at the same time whether I need to get any add-ins for that or not.

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Srini007 3,327 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @db89

A couple of things you can check

Can you tell me which acrobat version are you using?

Usually when you open the pdf by default it opens in browser screen, this will not give you any access to the fields, better to open in Acrobat Reader

Check if an option "Enable Protected Mode at startup" it is by default enabled, so disable that go to Acrobat Reader->Edit-> Preference-> In Sandbox Protections->clear the "Enable Protected Mode at startup" checkbox

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db89 5 on at

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Hi @Srini007 ,
Thanks for your response. I use Adobe Acrobat 2020 to open that form, but still I dont get access to the ediatble field. Also, I checked the "Enable Protected Mode at startup" which is not checked in the Security (Advanced) section.

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