text field properties will not allow me to add a border

WORKAROUND: In brief, CMD+E will bring up the text field properties toolbox from which you may successfully choose a border for your control. This is the solution mentioned at Re: How to draw shape in 'Comments' with no fill

Someone has, very helpfully, posted a fix for this issue that works across various appearances of the issue (comment tools, form tools, etc.) at How to draw shape in 'Comments' with no fill

I am using Acrobat Pro DC and am having the same issues.  Anyone know what the issue is with Adobe?  This function is why I have this software!

for a product that does not function as indicated!

You can not be serious, Acrobat XI works very well with compatible operating systems. Nothing required you to install an incompatible OS.
You can not and should not ignore this very clear warning: Adobe Acrobat XI and Adobe Reader XI End of Support | Adobe Blog

Still not fixed. This is really unacceptable. Acrobat on the Mac has always been the lesser product and yet it costs the same as the PC version. This is really unacceptable.

Edited to add: Just to clarify, I am using the current continuous release version: 2018.011.20038 that I pay $50 a month for this along with other Adobe apps.

MEEEEE!!!! TOOOOOO!!!!!

I'm paying dang good money for a product that does not function as indicated!  Is Adobe abandoning Acrobat DC?  I have an online subscription; it seems like this would be a very simple fix! 

For crying out loud Adobe, get your act togeather!

An usefull workaround is given in the best answer of this topic: Re: 'no colour' option not available when in properties with check, text boxes etc. Mac

WORK AROUND: I am working on a MacBook Pro, with Acrobat XI and have the same problem. I then opened a prior document that I have that has a field box where the background color option is working; I copied that box and pasted it into a document where I cannot create a colorable field box; the old, nontransparent properties remained for the pasted box!! The properties dialog still does not contain an optional transparency box, but I was able to import a box with the characteristics I wanted; also, you can change the fill color.

I presume the same holds true for a field box with a border: just go to  document where it worked before, copy it and paste it into your new document.

But seriously, Adobe has NO excuse for not fixing this bug now or months ago.

A potential half solution for a lucky few that still have documents with non-filled boxes

1. Find a document on which you have previously drawn a box which had no fill

2. Select of the box and then properties

3. Tick the box that says 'make default settings.'

That should get you back to the default of no fill on future docs.

I agree with others that this bug is ludicrous.  Really poor effort from Adobe.