Export form data to .csv (well hidden?)

[jane-e]

It took me a half an hour to find this feature in Acrobat Pro DC, and before I report it as a bug, I want to check to see if it's just me being over-worked and brain-drained, or is it really hidden?

It seems like I have been able to do export PDF form data from multiple PDFs to report.csv forever in previous versions of Acrobat, and it was easy to find and to do.

Here is what Help says:

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/collecting-pdf-form-data.html 

1. What I finally did was search Tools for "Merge Data" and it says it's on the Prepare Form toolbar.
   
2. Clicking Merge Data brings up the Export Data dialog box, and I can proceed as usual. The data opens in Excel.
   
   
3. But when I bring up the Prepare Form dialog that this tool is supposed to be in, I can't find the "Merge Data from Multiple Forms" directly. Where is it?
   

Is it now a hidden feature that you can only find if you know to look for it? Or am I missing something? If it's hidden, how would you know to look for it?

[Thom Parker · Accepted solution]

Adobe Loves to mess around with the Acrobat UI. Since Acrobat 6 they've made major changes every other version or so that mess everybody up. The is no consistency. But the great thing about Acrobat DC is you have the tool search, so at least you don't have to run through every menu and button and panel to find the tool you used to just click on in the toolbar.

Here's the current location of the merge data tool. Bad place, This is a top level tool you use well after the form is "Prepared", it aught to be at the top level. But there you go

[jane-e]

Thank you, Thom Parker​—I don't know how I missed that!

[Thom Parker]

Don't worry about it. It's just one small little arrow.  And there are a lot of other things around it.

[Mike Merritt 754]

I know this is a few years old, but I am so thankful for your answer. I went from a much older, and more user friendly, version of Acrobat Pro and was pulling my hair out trying to find this once easy to find command. I will leave my choice words for Adobe until another time. Thank you!