Large multiline text with placeholders?

I am tasked with creating a PDF that has a dropdown control named "Company_Name". The values in the dropdown are:
Companmy Alpha Blah
Comp Baaa
Industrial CompanyXYZ
Comp U
Underneath this dropdown control there needs to be a textbox with several placeholders and the text has to wrap neatly so it can be printed correctly. For example here is the text wht the placeholders:
{Company_Name}Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, {Company_Name}consectetur adipiscing elit. Duis ultricies tortor sit amet molestie congue. Vivamus faucibus, purus at varius placerat, augue eros condimentum enim, {Company_Name} eget feugiat.
Is it possible to do this so the text will wrap nicely no matter how short or long the Company_Name value is? Will Acrobat Pro do it, or will Adobe InDesign do it?
Thanks for advice!

It's possible to do it using a script that inserts the selected company name into the pre-defined string and then populates the text field with it. That string can contain line-breaks to make sure that it breaks where it needs to. This needs to be done in Acrobat, not in InDesign.

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Revision: 15186
Revision: 15186
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2010-03-31 16:42:19 -0700 (Wed, 31 Mar 2010)
Log Message:
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Tests run: checkintests
Is noteworthy for integration: No
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 added code part 2 End
function fieldToArray(myField) {
 if (myField.typename == "TextFrame") {
 retChars = new Array("\x03","\f","\r","\n");
 var ct = 0;
 var tmpTxt = myField.contents.toString();
 for (all in retChars )
 tmpArr = tmpTxt.split(retChars[all]);
 ct+= tmpArr.length;
 //--and just for kicks...
 ct+=1;
 //alert(ct);
 while (ct>0) {
 //throw something lucicrious as a content divider...
 tmpTxt = tmpTxt.replace(/[\x03]|[\f]|[\r\n]|[\r]|[\n]/,"_:X:_");
 ct--;
 return tmpTxt.split("_:X:_");

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