And the data block in the excel file has to be named, so it appears as a table to ODBC. So your excel file has to be ODBC registered. This is Acrobat's database connection interface. There is another way to approach this that will allow you more flexibility in naming the excel columns in a friendly way. If not, then maybe you should consider a different path. If you have an automated method for doing this you're in good shape. The problem now is filling it out the excel file since the form is all cryptic names. If you import the text file, that you exported from Acrobat, into excel, you will have your base excel file, with properly named columns. For this purpose, the first row in the Excel WorkSheet has to be the column names.
However, you need to be able to match fields in the form to columns in the Excel file. This is all very good info, getting a list of field names.