How do I write in a PDF-form?

I´m an amateur (and 73+) in the PC-field, so please give your advice in an elementary way.
I´ve a free download of Acrobat Reader 9.0 and when I get a form with several empty text-boxes in PDF I´m unable to find out how to fill out the text-boxes with my text for later print-out.
Please help!!!!

Unless those empty boxes have been converted to form fields and the creator has performed certain other tasks, you will need to print out the PDF and fill it in by hand.
You might want to contact the creator of the form for more help.

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