Acrobat 9 forms from word

I'm working with Acrobat 9 Pro and creating a form with a table. The table had 4 columns the first 3 have non-numerical data. The forth column is a cost column. What I need it to do is if there is something in columns 1-3 for it to talley the cost column at $10.00 per item. So if nothing is in a column it wouldn't talley. Any help would be terriffic. What I'm doing is taking a ready made form from Word and transfering it to Adobe. Are you saying that I would need to recreate the form.

If you create the files using PDFMaker, the form fields should be
automatically converted to Acrobat form fields. However, you will still need
to add the calculation yourself, but that's quite simple.
Just go to the Properties dialog of the total field, and under the
Calculation tab use the simple notation field to set the value to be the sum
of the other fields, times 10.

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