Changing font color in Text Box tool in Acrobat 9.0

The default color is coming out red but I can't figure out how to change it to black..anyone know??

sorry folks, found my answer..
if anyone else has the problem - select the text, go to View - then toolbars - the the properties bar and the font is in that bar...

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import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
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import javax.swing.text.StyledEditorKit.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit.*;
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import javax.swing.event.HyperlinkEvent;
import javax.swing.event.HyperlinkEvent.EventType;
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import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment;
//for font settings
import java.lang.Integer;
import java.util.Vector;
import java.awt.font.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
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protected static final String loadgraphicString = "LoadGraphic";
protected static final String connectString = "Connect";
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static JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
static JPanel fontPanel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
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static DrawPanel dFonts;
static DrawControls dControls;
static DrawButtons dButtons;
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String fontlist;
static JTextField userName = new JTextField();
public static JMenuBar menuBar;
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Well sorry the source code takes up the whole forum but I need a good feedback from this.

All right...
public class guiClient extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
static String userString;
static String currentFont;
String fontchoice;
String fontlist;
static JTextField userName = new JTextField();
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