Form Wizard, Excel Sourced Documents, Dozens of Extra Fields

Question

I have a series of PDF documents which I generate on a weekly basis from MS Excel reports.
It looks something like this:
Description
Jan Sales
Feb Sales
Mar Sales
Apr Sales
May Sales
Order 1
Order 2
Order 3
Order 4
Vendor 1
Widget 1
2
5
5
4
Widget 2
4
7
2
8
7
Vendor 2
Widget A
2
9
3
8
2
When I run this through Form Wizard, I get a form field in every blank cell.  I'd really like form fields limited to the Order 1 column.  Is there anything I can do to trick the Form Wizard to limit its attention to this area?  Perhaps by modifying the underlying Excel form before printing to Acrobat?
Edit:
Maybe I should mention that it's the fact that I have 200 pages/week that motivates me to look for a reduction in the Form Wizard initial field generation.  It takes me a little over 2 minutes a page to delete out the 100+ extra fields per page.  Eliminating the better part of a day's repetitive labor is kind of a big deal.
Message was edited by: jwpfw

Answer 1

Here are some ideas you can try. You can delete fields with JavaScript, so you could set up a script that loops through the fields and deletes them based on some criteria, such as the position on the page or the field name that Acrobat automatically generates. You can set up the script so it's activated from a custom toolbar button or menu item, or as part of a batch sequence (custom action). If you'd like specific help with the code, it would help if you could post a sample document that has the fields added.
An alternative that you can use if the layout of the document will remain unchanged is to add the fields using a script, perhaps taking advantage of tempates. So instead of running the Form Wizard to add the fields, you create a script to add the fields exactly where you want and with the field names and any other properties you want.