Edit a form in Acrobat but NOT in Designer

I have Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.1.7 on Windows XP SP3. What I want to know is how to edit a form in Acrobat without using LiveCycle Designer. Here's the issue: with a PDF open (generated via either a print job or File>Create PDF) under the Forms menu the first option is 'Create New Form...' and the second - greyed out - is 'Edit Form in Acrobat'. The problem is that if I run the option 'Create New Form...' then when I return to the menu the second option - now available - is 'Edit Form in Designer'... but I don't want to use Designer I want to use Acrobat. What do I have to do to make the 'Edit Form in Acrobat' option available? Thank you.

Bernd,
THANK YOU!
If only the Help explained so simply and well for those of us who have barely used Acrobat...
Best regards,
Julian ('For God's Sake...' followed a quarter of an hour of refusals of all my other screen names)

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From: sukritd15 <[email protected]>
To: Deborah Karr <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 5:35 AM
Subject: While editing a scanned pdf, Acrobat will not recognize the current font & change to very different font. How can I choose the font I want to match the current document?
While editing a scanned pdf, Acrobat will not recognize the current font & change to very different font. How can I choose the font I want to match the current document?
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