Hello,
First, thanks for anyone who can provide any help with this. I'm hoping someone can help me with this problem I'm having using a Word mail merge doc to auto fill out PDF forms. Let me explain what I'm trying to do first:
I work in a property management company and part of what we're trying to do is fill out forms (i.e. late rent notice) automatically for all of our tenants. The program we use right now can output the data we need in a Word mail merge data document. So basically I can go into the program and get it to output all the data I need (name, address, current balance, etc) in a mail merge data document, and then I would go into MS Word and use the mail merge function to fill out a form. The problem, however, is that all the forms provided by the government are in PDF format!
Now what I want to do is use that mail merge data document in Acrobat. I want to use the already provided form as a template for Acrobat to automatically fill out all fields that I specify for however many tenants are in the data document. So if there are 20 people there, Acrobat fills out 20 forms. I've managed to get it to fill out the form once, for one tenant only, but I can't figure out how to make it use the Form as a template for ALL data in the document, so it creates 20 forms for me if needed.
I hope this makes sense, and I really really hope someone can help me with this as this is a big priority for me!
Thanks in advance.
-Gogi
I know that this may be a long winded option. However have you attempted to re-create the Govt form from a PDF file to a word file and - then you are able to control the mail merge into the PDF file (the one you created) and then have it converted to PDF again, multiple times.
I am currently doing this at the moment - using ADOBE Acrobat 9.