Let’s tackle the date first as it’s easier. Where things get a bit more tricky is when you get down to the signature area on this W-9, because neither the signature or date are fields you can enter directly (no blue background). Otherwise, fix the spelling as you would any other input. If it’s spelled correctly, you can ignore the red line because it’ll vanish once you click out of that field. Notice that there’s a subtle box surrounding the field I’m entering and that “Murkwood” has been given a red underscore to indicate it’s not known in the spelling dictionary. Here I am filling in the beginning of the address area: In fact, all of the light blue areas are input fields, so it’s straightforward to click and type, filling in most everything. It’s going to be easy to fill out in the program! Look very closely at the above image and you’ll see a grey bar along the top of the document that says “This document contains interactive form fields.” That’s great and means that the PDF is designed to be an interactive form. It’s instantly opened and displayed thusly: To start, simply launch PDFelement Mac:Įasiest way to proceed is to click on the “Open File…” button on the left side and select the IRS document. Easily downloaded from the IRS Web site, it’s the kind of form that looks daunting but is quite easy to fill in. Let’s check out the various features and capabilities of PDFelement for Mac by filling out a form that I’ve had to send to people way too often: An IRS W-9 document. You can learn more here: PDFelement Scholarship Challenge.īack to our tutorial, however. Wondershare is also running a contest for college students, professors and full-time college employees where you submit a published review of their PDFelements program and are entered for a chance to win a $1000 scholarship or a new MacBook Pro. Modern PDF management tools like Wondershare’s slick PDFelement 6 make it a breeze, so easy that you’ll be mad at yourself for all the time - and paper! - you wasted with the print -> fill out -> scan cycle you’ve been using. Modern forms are all available in PDF format, however, so why do people keep printing them, filling out the printout, and scanning that back in to send? Because it’s hard to fill out forms online, right?Īctually, no, it’s not. We’ve all tried to squeeze information into little boxes with a pen and had to keep reminding ourselves to be legible as we proceeded, just to make a mistake and have to start over.

Whether you’re a college student, work at a big corporation or are self-employed, filling out paperwork is a fact of life.

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