Acrobat Professional 8 Text Color Problem

I have a question regarding Text Field Tool In Acrobat 8. I've tried a couple different things and nothing seems to work, I've looked through a bunch of questions on the forum and couldn't find exactly what I'm looking for - if anyone can help I'd be greatly appreciative!
I'm a designer and I'm trying to change the text color in an editable field for a client. The way I've designed the entire flier is for the text to be a specific color blue (C100 M45 Y0 K37 or R0 G58 B111 (- I know you can't ad a PMS color)) and I'd like to keep the editable field the same color.
I've tried both the "Properties" (Apple-E) and I've tried "right-clicking" --> Properties --> "Apperance" --> "Other text color" and here's where I think the problem lies. I can't pull down any menus within the "Colors" Palette? I can move the Gray Scale Slider (but can't change to a RGB or CMYK slider?). I can pick from the "Apple" List, the Image Spectrum, Color Wheel or a crayon color. It looks like these are all prepicked colors and I can't add my own. I know I can't do a PMS color but I thought I'd be able to specify a specific CMYK or an RGB color? Is this just not possible or am I doing something wrong? Please help, thanks!!!

HI. I've run into this same problem - not being able to change color modes to define a new color swatch in the color palette in acrobat 8/9. One way that I've been able to work around it is to open TextEdit, pressing command-t to show the fonts palette and then pressing the Text Color button within the fonts palette. This will cause the color palette (the same one used by Acrobat I believe) to open. From there, the pulldown menus are accessible, allowing me to create a CMYK swatch. Once I enter the proper percentages for the desired color, I can drag the main color swatch to the swatches section at the bottom of the color palette. Once the swatch is there, it will be available in Acrobat as well.
Another thing that I've noticed is that when using the color palette in Acrobat, if you choose a swatch that was defined using the CMYK slider from the swatch section, the color palette interface will change to the CMYK slider interface, allowing you to alter the color in Acrobat. This seems to be the quickest way to bypass the non-responsive color palette dropdown menus.

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