Displaying Currency Amounts in PDF Form Fields

Overview
The formatting of the text displayed in PDF form fields is controlled by the corresponding form field’s properties. Each text field has its own properties that control the appearance and behavoir of the field. There are options to control font parameters, field borders and background, and text formatting options. You can choose from a variety of formats from the following categories: Number, Percentage, Date, Time, Special, Custom and no formatting. One of the common tasks is to configure a form field to display a currency amount.
Editing Field Formatting
Use Prepare Form tool in Adobe Acrobat to edit form field properties.
Step 1: Open a PDF File
Open a PDF file that contains form fields using File > Open menu.
Open a PDF form with interactive text fields
Step 2: Open Prepare Form Tool
Select Prepare Form tool from TOOLS panel.
Open Prepare Form tool
Step 3: Open Properties Dialog
Double-click on the text field you want to edit to open Properties dialog.
Open Properties dialog
Step 4: Select Format Tab
Select Format tab on the Properties dialog to access formatting options.
Select “Format category” -> “Number”.
Set Decimal Places to 2.
Select desired separator and currency symbol ($)
Select desired formatting options
Step 5: Close Prepare Form Tool
Press Close button on the Properties dialog to save changes and then press Close button on the toolbar to close Prepare Form tool.
Close Properties dialog and Prepare Form tool
Step 6: Save Changes
Press Save button/icon on the toolbar to save changes back to the file. Alternatively, use File > Save menu.
Press Save button to save changes back to the file
Step 7: Test Form Field
Type any number into the text field to test how it works. Once you move cursor focus away from the field the text will be automatically formatted to display currency amount.
Press Save button to save changes back to the file
More online tutorials are available here.