Mail Merge in Acrobat 8

Hi
I have MS Word 2000 and Acrobat Pro 8. I have created a merge document and have the data in an Excel 2000 worksheet. The merge has been tested in Word and is fine.
In the Acrobat help it says I can create a Word mail merge, automatically name and save PDFs and have them e-mailed. It says "Choose Adobe PDF > Mail Merge to Adobe PDF" but I can't find this anywhere.
I'm sorry if this is a newbie question but any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

What I am trying to get at is that the merge button in the Adobe menu may only appear if the document has been setup for mail merge. This latter is the WORD setup for mail merge, not Acrobat. Once you set the document up for mail merge in WORD, then the menu item may appear. There is no reason to have the menu item if the document is not set for mail merge. I do not know if this is the case, but it may be the issue you are seeing.
It is worth a try with a simple setup of a few items. You don't have to do a fancy mail merge to check the concept. In the instructions it said to setup a mail merge document in WORD first and then it talked about the menu item. I suspect that is what is going on, but I can not test it at home.

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