PANTONE 4-Color Process in Adobe

Tearing my hair out here, so I'm turning to people no doubt far more knowledgeable and experienced than me!
I've been given some style guidelines which contain colours referenced by the Pantone Process system, e.g. Pantone DE 196-2 C.
Is it possible to find this colour as a swatch in an Adobe application? It seems that all of the Adobe Pantone libraries use a different numbering convention (PMS).
I've heard mention of "Pantone Process Coated" libraries - I'm not seeing that as part of my CS6 Design Standard installation. I do have "Pantone CMYK Coated", but it uses a numbering convention along the lines of "Pantone P 123-4 C".
Any help? If you're given a colour spec using Pantone Process colours, how do you get started in Adobe?
Many thanks in advance
Pete.

Last post was a while ago, but if you still need the information, the swatches appear to be in the:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS4\Presets\en_US\Swatches\Color Books (Windows). On a Mac it's probably very similar location, once you get to the Illustrator CS4 folder.
The files are Adobe Color Book files. I did a quick test and I was able to import them into Illustrator CC. You could also make a copy of the ACB file and put it into the same location for CS6. That way when you start up it will always be in your Swatches > Color Books list.

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