User editable forms in Acrobat........that can be saved in Reader?

Howdy Y'all
I have a client that needs a contract made up that can be emailed to clients for them to "fill in" and able to be saved to send back with all of the fields filled out. The original document was made in Word and I just exported it to a PDF and created the forms for user editing. Unfortunately, I was unaware that Reader versions of Acrobat were unable to save the docs (I'm kind of sheltered in that I have only used retail versions of Acrobat). We were hoping to use Acrobat since it's pretty much universal and the Reader is free.
Does anyone know of a way to create forms in Acrobat (vers. 8 Pro) that can be "edited" or have info input by another user with Acrobat READER and save them so it can be sent back? I already know how to create the form fields......I'm just curious if there is a way to FORMAT these fields or the document itself so that whatever is input into these fields can be saved on the client's end so it can be sent back.
The only other option is to send the Word docs that were originally made up but I'm afraid we would run into issues of clients not having Word to open the documents up.
Any suggestions?
TIA

Here is the window you will see when you choose Enable Usage rights.
Note: That means that you can not edit any content once USAGE Rights are envoked.
So you must make sure all corrections to documents made and perfect before Envoking rights.

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