Help: How to merge excel data onto PDF form

What steps do i need to take in order to merge excel data into my form. I'm currently looking into pulling the following fields from excell and merge them into my form:
Employee name
Employee ID#
Position Title
Supervisor
I been browsing around LiveCycle Designer and haven't stumble upon this feature yet.
Thank you for your time and really looking for some help out there.
Edit: I want to create 600 records containing the information above out of my one form. That way i don't have to sit here and do i form for each employee one at the time.

Good afternoon Mr. Niall,
Well i already created the XML file so that is ready to go, just been trying to figure out how execute a merge and create 600 records one for each employee.
I was looking into exporting the PDF file into word and that way i could execute this merge much more easily but i don't think i have the capabilities to do so.

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