Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro - Fillable Form

Attempted to create fillable form from Excel document. Received message as follows:
Adobe Live Designer
Designer was unable to locate critical application files. Please shut down Designer and run the installation (found under Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel). Choose to 'Repair' the installation in order to restore the missing files.
After clicking OK, I received the following message:
Unable to load local library.
I closed everything. Reopened Adobe Acrobate 8 Pro. Run the installation recommended and tried my project again. Received the same messages indicated above plus a new one:
Adobe Live Cycle Designer has encountered a problem and needs to close.
So I have no been able to create a fillable pdf. Anyone have a solution?

while in excel spread sheet go to file save as and click on PDF, it will convert your form to the adobe version. Then you will have to program all the fields you want to be typed in.

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