Managing data with Excel

This simple form has been sent out via email and when the recipients fill…out the form and then click Submit, it's going to launch their Desktop Email Application.…Let's see what's going on under the hood because of that Submit button.…The Submit button has been set to Submit a form, and let's look at the method.…It's asking to send it to this email address, and then the FDF Include, what…this means is Forms Data Format.…Essentially, it's just going to pull out the data, not the whole PDF, but just…the data that's in the fields, and that's a very small file.…

It's going to attach that FDF file to the email that comes back to the…initiator of the form.…So let's look at what that looks like when it comes back to the initiator of the…form and that would be me.…When I go to Tools and I choose More Form Options>Manage Data, I can choose…this, which is very handy, Merge Data Files into Spreadsheet.…So I go looking for all those FDF files that I've saved and they're in this Data folder.…See they're very small, let's look at the size, 1K.…