Adobe 9 Pro - PDF Portfolio

If I create a PDF Portfolio and add 8 seperate forms to that portfolio, is there a way I can have a field populate on all of the forms within that portfolio by only typing it in once? Say for instance I have "First Name" as a field on each of the forms. I want to be able to type it once and have it populate each "First Name" field on the 8 individual forms within the portfolio. Is this possible, or do I have to combine all 8 forms into one pdf document in order to do that? Thank you in advance for your help!

Hi MT.Freelance
The way that "Welcome Pages" are done in Acrobat X has changed from Acrobat 9, what you are seeing looks like a bug related to these changes.
If you would like to log a bug on this issue the form for bug reports can be found here https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&promoid=E WQQL
Thanks,
Josh

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