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Acrobat Pro DC: Extract Table data from Excel to Form

Community Beginner ,
Aug 30, 2022 Aug 30, 2022

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Hi,

 

I have a table in Excel consisting of about 100 lines of data categorized by 7 columns: NAME, DATE, NUMBER, etc. Most, but not all, of the data fields are populated; some are empty.

 

I want to get the data into a table format fillable form (created by duplicating fields with a row number qualifier in the names for each row in the table) to which I added text and checkbox fields that are populated and checked off as the data moves through a review process.

 

I know I can export a tab delimited file from Excel and import but I have two issues:

 

1 - I only have the option to import one line at a time. This is a deal-killer. It isn't practical to import 100 lines of data with 100 import actions in order to fill the table.

2 - Even if I did, the field has to be the same name as the excel column header. I cannot import 100 rows of fields for NAME, for example, if I have NAMERow1, NAMERow2, etc.

 

Is what I want to do possible using Acrobat scripts? What would a script look like if that would work?

 

Thanks,

David

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Thank you, Karl.

 

Give me some script and I can usually mangle it adapt it to my own needs. You've given me the framework to try to make it work.

 

David

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