Creating spaces in PDF form- text is too close together

Thank you in advance for all of your tips.
I am a novice to Adobe PDF form creator and I need some assistance. I am creating the forms and I have all my boxes set, but the issue is that I can not find where to space the text boxes from the top line to the bottom. (As we would do with the enter/return key) I have the full letter page to fill but when I print the form it's on a 1/4 of a page and I need all the text to fill the whole page. I don't necessary want to enlarge the boxes to fill the space.
Where can I create extra spacing between each top and bottom lines?
Michelle

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