BiggerPockets

I use microsoft word. Turn your pdf's into jpg's and the place text boxes on to of the jpg where you need to autofill. Works great for me.

Adobe Acrobat (not Reader) will also allow you to do this. You can password protect the file and make it not editable after you're done so that you can email it and not worry about modifications by other people.

Originally posted by wheelhouse

I use microsoft word. Turn your pdf's into jpg's and the place text boxes on to of the jpg where you need to autofill. Works great for me.

I guess everyone else already knows this - but I certainly do not, so I have to ask. How do you turn the PDF to a JPG - and retain sizing and quality?

I would like to know how I could use Word to auto populate documents also.

I guess what I was hoping to find was some software that brought up a "form" where you just entered all the information by tabbing through. Then, when done, you click a "create form" type of buttton and it spits out the form with all the blanks filled out. This seems to be a bit harder to come by than I realized it would...but, both of the above options will work just fine and I appreciate the input!

This is exactly what mail merge does. You fill in an excel sheet and Word will auto populate it. The best part is if you have an electronic fax, you can autofax it as well.

That's something I did think about. The software was about $400, I think. Which, I will pay eventually cause I believe a lot of what we do revolves around PDF format, etc.

You can buy it on ebay for $120-$180. Or use Nitropdf, but I recommend adobe over it.

Hello

I use adobe and its frigging easy... If you have a form or two that you need created let me know... Its like really easy...

I just need it in either word, excel, or as a PDF...

Here to help if you need...

Michael

I originally was asking about something like what Scott Nachatilo is talking about...that would be idea. I think Scott Hubbard has the right idea for me, for now since I don't have THAT much activity, yet.

Thanks for the offer Michael...I will keep that in mind in the future if there's something I can't figure out. I was just looking for a way to fill out an easy form that would autopopulate a contract or addendum, etc...

I think all of these ideas are great, though! Thank you all for the responses.

Scott Hubbard: When you mentioned the Excel and creating forms that pre-fills, what/how are you doing that? I am pretty Excel Savvy, but don't know how to create a form that autofills contracts...which, is sort of what I was looking for.

I use multiple sheets.

1. Sheet 1 is your data form: Seller information, property, address, offer amount, title company, buyer information etc.

2. Sheet 2 would be the form you want to fill out. For instance, a purchase contract. Copy and paste the contract in Excel using text to column feature. Create a a cell in the form where you want to place the data. In the formula bar type in ' = ' sign, then click on Sheet 1 and the cell that carries the data you want to appear in the form.

I have about 10 different forms including a HUD 1. I only have to fill in the data form once and use only the forms I need.

Thanks Dee, would love to hear what your partner is/was doing.

Okay Scott, that makes sense, I think...I will have to mess with it to see if I can get it to work.

Michael, that would be great, the format you have there. Is that created in Adobe? I mean, the forms and all that? If so, that may be the route to go...I do like the functionality of what Scott is talking about, however. I mean, enter your data once and it populates every other form you have with the correct information...but I do want it to ultimately be laid out like you posted Michael, in the end.

Thanks again, you guys are great!

Chris

Okay, thanks again, Michael. So, in general, the info has to be entered just once?

I don't know why I am so stuck on this...I guess I have done only 5 contracts in the last 2 months...but I am not dedicating a significant amount of time to the deals. So, I just got to thinking how overwhelming this could get if I were doing more deals and spending more time generating business...a tool like this just seems it would simplify things so much.

Thanks again,

Chris