Can I set up a form so that there is text in the fields when the user opens the file?

Question

My client is interested in supplying schedules of activities in a PDF, and would like it so that a person can use what's in the document, or replace their own information in place of what's supplied.
I've set up forms for filling in blanks, but I've not seen if some text can be left in the fields to start with. For example, leaving a "your name" text line in a field where the user clicks on that phrase and it disappears (like you see in a number of forms on web pages).
Is this possible with Acrobat? If not, we'll probably have to go to a Word based solution, but I'd get better design if I do it in InDesign and add this functionality to a PDF.

Answer 1

George,
Thanks for keeping track of the discussion. I appreciate that you've taken the time to help me. My clients love the fact they can create these curriculum schedules with editable blocks that will allow the original info to return if the block is emptied. Now they'd like book titles italicized.
I downloaded the Javascript reference PDF and found the "richValue" information, but I'm not grasping the concept of how to add it to my page. I'm not Javascript-literate, so I'm more inclined to add HTML tags or something like
and to make something italic.
Here is the example they gave:
Example
Turn all bold text into red underlined text.
// Custom format event for a rich text field.
var spans = event.richValue;
for ( var i = 0; i < spans.length; i++ )
if( spans[i].fontWeight >= 700 )
spans[i].textColor = color.red;
spans[i].fontWeight = 400; // change to default weight
spans[i].underline = true;
event.richValue = spans;
I think I understand the 400 and 700 numbers as font weights, and that "underline" could be replaced with "italic". So I'm trying to figure out what I would need to write in order to make specific words italic in a block of text in the example you provided:
// If field is blank, display this text
if (!event.value) event.value = "Your name here";
Can a span be ID'd by placing a sort of tag around the words? Like... (pardon my fake Javascript)
// If field is blank, display this text
if (words.are) 'i' then italics = true
if (!event.richValue) event.richValue = "Your 'i'name'i' here";
(You're probably laughing at my attempt here, but I hope my point is made :-) ).
David