Making a form able to be saved in reader

I made a form for a friend and want him to use it as a template (invoice). But when I open it in a Acrobat Reader after creating the fields in pro it say it can only be printed not saved.
What do I do in pro to allow him to save it?
Appreciate the help. I searched for the answer before posting thinking this is a normal question

The Adobe techdoc links are an excellent, detailed source of several methods on the Enabling User Rights process, for versions 7.0.8 and later.
The newsletter I produced on the subject at hand was intended as a simple, step-by-step, illustrated guide for many clients who had issues with the process of making forms for Adobe Reader users with Acrobat Pro v. 7.0.8 and it seems to have helped many of them figure out how to use the feature better. I will be producing a new one for version 8 over the summer (unless, of course, Acrobat 9 makes an appearance by then. :-) )

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