County of Santa Barbara Clerk-Recorder-Assessor fill-in forms use the features provided with Acrobat 6.0 products. Currently, there is some computation, no validation or no verification of the information you enter and you are still responsible for entering all required information (instructions may require some information to be handwritten on the form).

To view, complete and print Clerk-Recorder-Assessor fill-in forms you'll need the freely available Acrobat 6.0 Reader (or later) software installed on your computer. Important Note: Acrobat Reader does not allow you to save your completed forms to disk. (The ability to save completed forms is available commercially with the Adobe Acrobat 6.0 (or later) product suite.)

Position the hand pointer inside a form field and left click. The "I-beam" pointer allows you to type text or number. The arrow pointer allows you to select a field, a check box, a radio button, or an item from a list.

Multi-line fields require you to press Enter (or Return) to progress to the next line. When youve completed the field, press Tab to proceed to the next field.

To Go Back to the previous field, press Shift + Tab to accept the current field change and go to the previous field. You could also move the hand tool to previous field.

If the fill-in form is displayed within your web browsers' window, be sure to use the printer button  on the Acrobat toolbar menu to print the form instead of your web browsers print function.

Reminder: The Acrobat Reader does not allow you to save your filled-in form to disk. Your only permanent record of the filled in form will be your printout. Therefore, do not close the program until you are sure the printout is acceptable and you've printed all the copies you'll need.