The benefit comes with a cost, however: Access can't import PDF form data directly, as it can from Excel and other sources. Use Adobe Reader and Excel as a solution to this problem.

Microsoft announced this week that's it's now possible for Office 365 users to import table data from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program.

PDF Data Connector from Microsoft will help you import and use PDF data into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Learn how to use it.