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    3 comments  ·  Acrobat for Windows and Mac » PDF Forms  ·  Admin →
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    Resolved  ·  Bhavna Negi responded

    The form field detection algorithm is not perfect, and only provides a good starting point.
    You will require manual work to create fields that are not detected by Acrobat

    As a workaround, you could try inserting “Square shape” instead of bullets.
    Click Insert, click Shapes, select a shape, and then click and drag to draw the shape.

    I hope this work for you.

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    Johan Alex commented  · 

    I hit this same checkbox detection problem with long Word forms — the manual cleanup after auto-detect runs is really tedious. One thing that helped was testing different bullet and square glyphs before converting, since some Unicode symbols detect more reliably than others. I compared a few <a href="https://stylishnamechecker.com/">name style</a> and symbol variations on that tool to see how the characters render.