Flowable Text Fields - Adobe Acrobat XI Pro

I'm currently using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro and need to design a form with 'flowable' text; how do I do this?

I'm not sure what you mean by 'flowable' text. Acrobat XI comes with FormsCentral for Acrobat. You can start there to create and generate fillable PDF forms. You can add Formatted Text elements (paragraphs of text) or multi-line text fields. Is that what you need?
With FormsCentral for Acrobat you can create unlimited numbers of PDF forms without a subscription to FormsCentral but if you want to collect data then you will need to get at least a free FormsCentral subscription.
Hope this helps
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