Pre filling form then emailing for further completion

I am new to this, so please bear with me. I am creating a form to email to our consituents that has information that may or may not be correct.
I want to fill the form with the info/data we have and then have the recipient either add or change the information depending on if it is correct and email it back to me. There are approx 300 constituents I need to send these forms to. The form will have text boxes, yes/no boxes, etc.
I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro 8. The data lives in an excel spreadsheet.
I know I will have more questions, but initally how do I get the data into the form?
Thank you for any help you give me or direction you can point me.

If this is going to be a yearly correction of information in your database, then during the second year you would be violating the Adobe license which says you may not use an Reader enabled pdf form (enabled in Acrobat as opposed to LiveCycle Reader Extension enabled) to 500 uses. Personally, I think you would be better off creating a webform from the information in the excel file and directing the users to the website. This will have two advantages---the information you are working with will be transferred to a database where it belongs and the corrections will be in a database for your future use.  I know of no way to do what you what with an Acrobat based form. However, it may be possible using LiveCycle Designer. You might ask the the Designer forum.

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