You can embed a PDF file into a cell of an Excel worksheet and then use Excel's security features to lock the object. This allows you to take advantage of both technologies.

You can also transfer data from a PDF file into an Excel spreadsheet automatically by using a software program such as PDF to Excel Converter, Able2Extract or Cogniview.

I have Excel 2003 and Acrobat Professional 6. I'm trying to automate saving the current worksheet to a distincly-named PDF file.

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.