Fillable Forms and Excel

Hey there,
I'm new to these forums, so maybe this problem has already been addressed.
I've got about 800 PDF forms that we're trying to create about various property information.  That information exists in GIS software in a .dbf format, and I converted it to an excel spreadsheet.  I've got a fillable PDF that I would love to populate automatically with that data from excel, but so far I'm only able to do that 1 document at a time by creating tab delimited text files (and only after exporting form data as a .txt file and saving the excel data as the same name).  Acrobat is pretty robust, so I assume there's a pretty easy solution here.  Anybody have any ideas?
Josh

Hi
Yes you can. You may visit this link to check the workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0PPzFq3X00
Regards,
Ajlan Huda.

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