Can PDF Fillable Questionnaire be expanded base on answers to questions on form?

Our users have a fillable Word form that links to other Fillable Word forms.  They want to have the form display or remove questions based on answers given to previous questions. Please let me know if this can be done in Adobe Acrobat Professional 8, because we are trying to get away from doing our fillable forms in Word.
We are running Acrobat version 8 on an Office XP machine.
Thanks for the help.

In Acrobat Pro go to Advanced>Enable Usage Rights in Adobe Reader.
> No, it won't allow her to even enter information in the text fields.
Maybe she's not even using Reader? Possibly Mac Preview (but I don't think that gives you the purple bar. Not actually sure)?

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