Flexible, filliable form in reader

I am a new acrobat X user and we are trying to create a form that people with reader can fill in the answers to but not touch other areas.
So far i have a form with T&C's on one side in text
Labels on the left like name or address with form fields to capture the values for the contract.
What its lacking is flexibility...is there a way you can have a text form field with a fair amount of default text but which can be edited with reader as if in a word processor type program ie change fonts/sizes add/remove lines etc. I guess like a formatable memo form field.
Does such a thing exist or whats the best way to accomodate this flexibility to one part of the pdf but not to the other.
Thanks
Sam

You won't get the same capabilities of a Word Processor, but you can have
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contain rich text and be multi-line.

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