Typewriter in Acrobat 6

I have searched the forums but nothing to answer this specifically. Is it available in 6.x?
Thank you

In AA6 you can use the Text Box tool under Tools>Advanced Commenting. You can use the properties toolbar to change the font properties when in typing mode. If you just select the box, you can resize it or adjust the border and background colors with the properties bar. If you click the box again, you will go back to the typing mode and the properties toolbar will change accordingly. This Text Box tool is the old form of the Typewriter tool for AA6 in my view. At least it might meet your need.

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Thank you George. I searched the register key you had from the previous message "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\7.0\Annots\cAnnots\cFreeText_003aFreeTextTypewriter"
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UPDATE 2:
Please see attached simpl scanned file.
When I first open it Typewriter tool works just fine.
If I extract a page from it, not deleting the page, then the typewriter tool only allows typing text and not modifying anything like spacing, etc.
Update:
Just ran a test:
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Strange?
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Hello.
My office just upgraded us to Acrobat Pro 9.1.3 on our XP- Pro.
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I have checked file settings and the security setting is always set to none.
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I have searched KB and all over the internet and have not seen any doscussions on this.
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The test should not be on the extracted page/file. The test should be on the file the page was extracted from.
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In case it matters, I'm running Acrobat Standard 9.0.0 under XP Pro SP3 on an HP Notebook with 4GB of RAM.
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Herb

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