Form Events in Acrobat 9 Standard

I'm trying to programatically have my form fields highlighted when opened by a user in Reader. I've seen some other posts recommending setting the app.runtimehighlight event to true but I can't find the form events. Any help would be appreciated.

Acrobat 9 Standard does not have direct access to the document level scripts. So with a one page form you could add the code to the open page action. You will need to open the 'Page' or 'Thumbnail' navigation page, select the page, right mouse click and select the 'Page Properties" and add the script using the 'Actions' tab.

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