Acrobat XI - Transparent Text Color

Any help with this would be spectacular, because I am beginning to think this release has removed this ability.
Editing a PDF document that has text embedded within the layout, I want to set the "Fill" of the text to Transparent. This was something I have been able to do for many Acrobat cycles now but with the release of XI it appears to be missing.
I do not want to delete the text. Additionally, I found where I can change the color of the text, but none of the options translate to Transparent.
Thank you in advance for any assistance you can offer!

Sadly, with what I am trying to achieve, this is part of a larger paragraph and I need to just blank out the fill on a word or two.
I have older versions of Acrobat so I can still get to where I am going, but it is problamatic that the new Acrobat lacks this feature.

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