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Converting a form into excel spreadsheet

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2007-10-11 13:46:54
nmactavish
Registered: Oct 11 2007
Posts: 2

I have a form (fill-in and submit by email)created with Abobe design and i want to know how to get the computer to take the information from the form and create a continous excel spreadsheet. I want to control the way the spreadsheet is set up as well. Can someone help?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0.0, Windows
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2007-11-08 23:38:55
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matchley
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Registered: Feb 9 2006
Posts: 27
I think your first step woulb be to convert the InDesign form to a PDF form, then Run Form Field Recognition to make it a fillable form. Have the form filled in then Export the file as a Text file. Problem is that it may not retain the formatting you had in the PDF file.

Mark

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2008-11-12 21:59:08
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abvjav
Registered: Nov 10 2008
Posts: 7
You can try to send your form to http://www.reportminers.com/
They convert pdf files to Excel and can customize the Excel file for you.
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