Multiple copies of form from spreadsheet data

Ok, please forgive me if I have this totally wrong but I am brand new to LiveCycle
Ok, here is my question. I have created a form in LiveCycle Designer basically as a template page and I have a speadsheet that has been created in Excel. What I want to do is when I print the pdf template it will populate the fields with the info from the Excel spreadsheet with each row of excel file on a new sheet.
Is this possible and if so, could someone please point me in the right direction as to how to do it.
Thank you all SO much

Have a look at this blog entry on FormFeed.
http://blogs.adobe.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=spreadsheet&IncludeBlogs=261&limit= 20
I'm hoping it will help you with your question.
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