The IRS uses adobe pdf forms for all of its forms. Is there anyway to
convert them so that you can insert excel formulas and save them as an
excel file? Why you ask?

1. Excel is much smaller and faster.
2. The forms, as they exist, will autopopulate Social Security numbers
and names, but will not calculate simple addition.
3. In short, I prepare a lot of taxes for small business and find myself
filling out the same forms over and over - most of the formulas are
simple, but even if I fill out the formula in a separate spreadsheet, it
takes a long time to tab through the IRS pdf forms.

Any ideas? I can copy the graphics as picture files and import them into
excel, but am at a loss to then take these graphics and add a formula. I
have Adobe Professional 8 and Excel 2007. All the conversion programs I
have found do a poor job of preserving the appearance. (Scan to pdf, and
others.)

If this is impossible, is there a way I can design a questionaire that
asks questions - puts the answers into an excel spreadsheet and then
exports them to the IRS forms? Sort of like: what was your income ______
what is your social security income ______ and have excel import /
calculate / and then auto-populate the pdf for printing?

any tips are appreciated.