Change and Make Permanent Text Tool Properties next to impossible in Acrobat DC Pro (Mac)

The way to edit Text Tool Properties to make them permanent (make them default) is to click on the "More" button in the properties window (which I call up with command-e). But unless you move that window IMMEDIATELY adjacent to where your mouse is clicking, which is to say next to an existing text, there's no way to select "MORE". If it is farther away MORE will show, but you can't keep the box open long enough to bring the mouse to that spot. This is not the case with any other properties box in other tools, so far as I know, and it seems like really weird behavior. But it's been this way in every edition of Acrobat I've used since v. 9.

Am I missing something?

Thanks.