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Tabs should be assigned to the recipient that needs to interact with them, you can use the Auto-place feature to place tabs at every location where a specified text string, also known as an anchor, is found in a document., that way the fields will be placed automatically and you don't have to do it manually 

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Auto-place (anchor tagging)

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