AUTO POPULATING HEADERS WITH A MACRO IN PDF FILES?

My company recently bought me Adobe Professional. We have certain paperwork on PDF files. What I want to do is be able to update the headers much like the program I developed in Excel where you put the info in a form and it automatical updates everything else. I have the info linked to other pages in the workbook. Currently we print the pdf file and then use the Excel program to print the header on the printed pdf files by putting them back into the printer. I want to eliminate the printing and putting back into the printer part by updating the header in the PDF file and printing the items directly. Any ideas? It would make my day and streamline a process. Thanks!

Hello luvtofly,
You posted this message in the InContext Editing Web Developer discussion. I'm going to move this to the Acrobat forum where it can be seen by someone who might be able to help.
Best regards,
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