Using pdf templates

My book publisher provides pdf templates to use to create book covers. These pdf templates have exact sizes that need to be followed exactly. I realize that Adobe Acrobat XI is not an editing program so my question is how do I fill out the fields in Word so that parts fit the template exactly without extruding beyond the set fields? If I export to Word, will the field sizes be exact?
(No sure how I can attach an example)

I put the file up at http://www.orthohelp.com/example/testtemplate.pdf
Adobe Acrobat says that it can find no forms on it. Maybe I am doing something wrong.
There's a message attached to this post that says "currently being moderated". Why?

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