[Snoopers-868th]

Whatever is editable in Word is searchable. To be sure exactly of what you mean.

Whatever is editable in Word is searchable IN PDF.

Is that what you mean? It could make a huge $$$ difference to this project.

[ConservativeMind]

Whatever is editable in Word is searchable in Word or any other Word-compatible program. You just give them the Word document and let them do their own searches.

Also, anything output as searchable PDF is searchable with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.