Combining Excel 2013 in Acrobat XI

How do I get multiple sheets from excel 2013 files to combine into the pdf using Acrobat XI? It worked fine with Office 2007.

Hi Sally,
I'd like to help!
What happens when you attempt this task? Do you receive a specific error message?
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Kind regards, Stacy

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I did do some tests as suggested and I found a huge difference between the handling of Excel 2007/2010 and 2013. I did see some strange behaviour.
I created an Excel Sheet in all 3 environments with identical steps to get identical sheets. After save i discovered the following:
On Excel 2007/2010 the test sheet was:
Test Sheet.xlsx - 191.894 kB
Test Sheet.xls - 614.881 kB
On Excel 2013 test sheet was:
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Test Sheet.xls - 336.092 kB
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