Export PDF form to MS Excel. Losing field contents

Hi there,
I'm using Adobe Acrobat X Pro.
I'm trying to export a PDF form into MS excel for further manipulation, but it seems that Acrobat is unable to export everything into Excel.
Here what I have done:
"File"> "Save as">"spreadsheet">"MS excel workbook". then I will save onto desktop.
when I open it up in MS excel, i only see the form fields but not the content.
Can anyone help? Is this a acrobat issue or excel issue?
Thanks

Try flattening the form before exporting to Excel. You can do this via PDF Optimizer, Preflight, the following JavaScript that you execute in the interactive JavaScript console (Ctrl+J):
flattenPages();
by placing the cursor on that line and pressing Ctrl+Enter, or Enter on the numberic keypad, or by using this free JavaScript-based tool: http://www.uvsar.com/projects/acrobat/flattener/

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