Acrobat Forms - Continue text to another sheet

OK so I am sort of teaching myself to create forms in Acrobat.
We have a memo that is a .docx format that I'd like to convert to an Abobe form. The reason being it just seems redundant to edit the document in word - only to then save it as a PDF and insert it the page(s) into a PDF package containing other plans and details in PDF form. I have designed a form that actually works great... except for situations where the "details" of the memo exceed the text box size of the sheet. I need some way to continue the text onto a second sheet. Then the user can simply save the PDF and insert it into their plan set with other documentation. Is there a way to do this? My first thought was just create the form with a second sheet already in it. But like I said, it just depends on the complexity of the project that the user may not even need that second sheet. The downside to that is making sure the user deletes that second page if it isn't necessary. The document also has to be able to be printed to Letter size if necessary.
Attached is an example... you can see the area I am referring to with the green arrow. The details of the project could be four or five paragraphs or just one.
Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!

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