He Who Must Not Be Named asked if we had any suggestions.

Um, yes. The tired old saw of use strict needs to be brought out. Using warnings would be a good idea. What if one of those variables is undefined and the person submitting the form doesn't notice? Also, from what I can tell, the global variables are apparently being populated with one of your do statements. Ugh. That's a great way to obfuscate the data source and to ensure that your variables are more like to be misspelled. Further, you should factor out common code elements:

# this is too repetitive
Tab();
Send("$DueDate");
Tab();
Send("$Period");
Tab();
Send("$Year");
Tab();
Send("$PermitNum");

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Instead of the above, try this:

my @vars = ( $DueDate, $Period, $Year, $PermitNum );
foreach ( @vars )
{
    Tab();
    Send( $_ );
}

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Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re: Ghost fill in adobe forms by Ovid
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