Mail Merge in Acrobat 9 Professional?

Hi, All!
I have been told that I can perform a mail merge similar to MS Word from within Acrobat Pro 9. The main document (with merge type fields) needs to be an Acrobat .pdf. The data source can come from an external file. The key is that the merge is performed in Acrobat, not Word.
I have searched throughout Acrobat Pro 9 but have found no functionality that matches my needs. Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks for any help on this!
Christina

Just figured out how to merge Excel data into an Adobe Acrobat PDF with form fields! This will only works for 1 document at a time though, so it's not really a mail merge, but still better than nothing.
1. Create PDF from Word, Indesign or whatever you prefer to use.
2. Create you form fields as you normally would.
3. In the appropriate form field, type the name that corresponds with your Excel heading <Form Field Name>
4. Save your Excel spreadsheet as a 'Tab Delimited Text (.txt)' file.
5. Back to Acrobat, Forms Menu, Manage Form Data, Import Data, Select 'Text Files', Select your file, highlight data group and hit OK.

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