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December 4, 2017
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PDF mail merge

  • December 4, 2017
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I'm looking to mail merge into a fillable PDF form with addresses in an Excel file.  I had Acrobat 9 but was advised this functionality was only available in newer versions of Acrobat so upgraded to Acrobat Pro 2017.  However, still cannot find any options to perform a PDF mail merge. Is this possible?

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try67
Braniac
December 4, 2017

If you can't find this option under the PDF Maker tab in Word you can always use a script, like this one I've developed: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Mail Merge and Email

New Participant
December 4, 2017

Thanks, but I've just spend the money on upgrading from Acrobat 9 to Acrobat Pro 2017 on the understanding it had a mail merge function (as advised by Adobe pre purchase).  I was advised PDF maker is not supported Adobe.

Thom Parker
Inspiring
December 4, 2017

That's what a mail merge is, merging an email mail message with data. However, you should complain to the support people who advised you. To be precise, what you want to do is not a mail merge, but a variable data operation. The support people should have pointed this out.

There are 3rd party tools to do this, or you could write (or purchase, try67 is not expensive) a Script to do it. It's actually not too difficult. I have information and customization scripts here: https://www.pdfscripting.com/members/ExcelAndAcrobat.cfm

Your best options is to save the data to a CSV file, then a short script to import data from the CSV.  This only works when the CSV column headers match the field names.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often
Braniac
December 4, 2017

Do the mail merge in Word using the Acrobat merge-to-PDF function.

New Participant
December 4, 2017

Thank, but I want to merge into a pre-defined fillable PDF form, not merge from Word into a PDF file.  Thanks anyway.

New Participant
July 7, 2021

Same here! How do I merge from Excel into a fillable PDF file?