Forms - button to repeat a section/row

Hi All, This is the first time I've posted to the Adobe forum, so please forgive me if I sound like I have no idea - well, I don't really!
I need to create a form that has a table/section that we would like our reader to be able to click a button and it repeats the section. For example if it is to provide details of previously held jobs and I have a table with Date, Company Name, Role Title, Duties Held etc - we don't know how many previous jobs they have had, so it would be good to have one section and then a button and they can click it each time they need to add the details rather than having lots of tables that may or may not be used wasting space. Am I making sense?
I have the basic form set up (well I am refining it at the moment) and have seen in Livecycle that a row can be added and deleted, but I am on a Mac and can't see how they did it. I haven't had experience with 'events' or javascript so anything to explain it clearly would be wonderful. I've tried Googling for help but I don't think I'm using the correct wording to find useful results.
Thanks in advance for your patience and assistance.
Marie

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