Adding & formatting text in Acrobat Pro 8

Summary:
I have just upgraded from Acrobat 5 to Acrobat Professional 8. In acrobat 5 it is super easy to add new text and format to desired style, color, size, etc...
I can not for the life of me figure out how to ADD text that I can format with font styles, size and color. (not to be confused with formatting pre-exiting text on a page) I have looked at the typewriter tool and text box tool. The text box tool appears to allow bold, strike, italics, but does not allow to resize, change color or change font style.
Anyone know how to do this? I can't imagine this feature no longer available in such a dynamic version.
Thanks!

Jodi,
You have posted to the wrong forum - Acrobat can be found at :
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.ee6b2ed/ if using Mac
or
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.ee6b2f2/ if using Windows

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