Form Features: Checking for required fields on scrolling or moving to the next page.

Hi! I am developing a form which will be distributed to people using Adobe Reader without the JavaScript functionality. I have a form with about 20+ pages and each page has 4 required fields. I would like to make it easy for the users to show the errors then and there when they miss a require field, instead of having a generic "required field not filled" message at the end of the document. How do I do this without JavaScript? It would be better if the document jumps to the page where there is an empty "required" field.

This isn't possible without using JavaScript.

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Thank you so much for your quick response (and thank you for all the code that I am reusing!) I have another issue now.Can you see why the following is occurring....
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