Does Acrobat Standard allow "mail merge" or do I need to purchase Acrobat Professsional to do that?

I'm trying to use Mail Merge to fill in an Adobe PDF form with information from an Excel spreadsheet.
I'm reading some stuff that says Adobe Acrobat Professional has such a tool. Does the Acrobat Standard have this capability?  Is there a free download
for Auto Mail Merge?

There are a variety of tools in Acrobat, especially for programmers, but nothing I'd really call a mail merge - nothing like the feature in Word.
However, you really aren't in the right place for advice. Try an Acrobat forum, CreatePDF is a web service for people without Acrobat. I recommend you include the address (URL) of the web page where it talks about this feature, it could mean several things.

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