PDF form from Excel spreadsheet/table

I am developing a process where folks enter data (all text) to a central spreadsheet, and someone uses Acrobat X to generate a form. The form needs checkboxes (one per table row), and a digital signature above the table. I'm running into a couple of issues:
1) I am trying to automate the creation of checkboxes, so that whoever is generating the final PDF form does not need to add a checkbox for each row. I noticed that in Excel, in Develop mode, one can add checkboxes, and on my first try, the PDF form creator seemed to translate those automatically into PDF form checkboxes so that no extra manual step was needed. In my last few tries, the conversion no longer auto-converts checkboxes. Any tips on this?
2) I also noticed that whereever there is blank space, the form creator inserts a text field. Even for table cells that have text in them, if there's any white space, presto, here comes a text field inserted into that very cell, usually named after the text already in the cell. Is there any way to avoid this?

Which version of Acrobat do you have? If X, then there should be an option
in your Excel to Mail Merge the spreadsheet, which is basically what you
describe. However, I'm not sure if it can also automatically email the
files to the recipients.
I have developed a script that can do the merge, *and *automatically email
the file to each person. Have a look here for more info:
http://try67.blogspot.com/2011/09/acrobat-mail-merge-and-email.html

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