Can I export values from an excel spreadsheet into a dropdown field in Acrobat?

I'm creating a form in Acrobat with a dropdown field as an option, I would like to know if I could export the values from an Excel spreadsheet into this field (there are 600 records)?

Sorry this is not something that we currently support. You have to enter your items manually. Once you created you field though you can copy in paste to other forms so you only have to create it once.

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$[CHE_TEST@asterix1_impl] r
1 declare
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3      with data as (
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6        select 1 id, '1test' val1, 'b' val2 from dual
7        union all
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19      null;
20    end loop;
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ERROR at line 18:
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PLS-00402: alias required in SELECT list of cursor to avoid duplicate column names
ORA-06550: line 18, column 3:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
$[CHE_TEST@asterix1_impl] r
1 declare
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