Acrobat X Pro - Duplication of form fields

I use Acrobat X Pro to make fillable forms and frequently have an issue with form fields duplicating over top of each other when I try to format a group of fields. Our forms are often several pages in length and it's very time consuming to have to repeatedly delete the duplicate fields and reformat the original fields. I have the same issue when I attempt to copy radio buttons from one form to another (e.g. I copy the radio buttons from the English to the French versions of the same form to save time of adding and formatting the radio buttons on the French PDF). Is there a way I can prevent the fields from duplicating? My operating system is Windows XP.

i have read at least 4 articles and watch 3 videos that do almost the same process i have explained.  the only difference is that they used Word to create their PDF doc.  they had no issues.
so i am wondering if there is something wrong with the Excel PDF process.  i have tried this one 2 different MacBooks with same result.
what does the cell have to have in order for Acrobat to detect it as a form field?
I have a spreadsheet that has over 300 fields that should have been detected.  so yes, i could create them manually, but i am hoping to get this Acrobat to detect them. 
I tried the process you did "File=>Create Form".  i got same message.
i built a separate little test process to describe the issue.  see image that is attached.
it is very simple, yet no fields were detected.

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