How Can I Highlight Each Instance of a Word?

Does anyone know how to highlight (in yellow) each instance of a particular word that occurs in a PDF document? It's very easy in MS Word but I was told (another Forum) that I would need a Java script to do this in Acrobat.
If that is so, can anyone share the script with me as I do not know Java?
Thanks very much!

Cate,
This code works in Acrobat 8.x and takes a bit of configuring the client in 9.0.
Cheers,
Rocky
//Begin Code
/* A search dialogue that highlights the words you designate in the dialog box. */
app.addMenuItem({ cName: "Find Highlighter", cParent: "Tools", nPos: 0, cExec: "highlighterFind()"});
function highlighterFind()
var wordFind = app.response({
cQuestion:"Enter the word you wish to search for",
cTitle:"Quick Search"
if(wordFind != null)
search.query(wordFind, "ActiveDoc")
var ckWord, numWords;
for (var i = 0; i < this.numPages; i++ )
numWords = this.getPageNumWords(i);
for (var j = 0; j < numWords; j++)
ckWord = ckWord = this.getPageNthWord(i,j);
if (ckWord == wordFind) {
/* then highlight it */
this.addAnnot({
page: i,
strokeColor: color.yellow,
type: "Highlight",
quads: this.getPageNthWordQuads(i, j),
author: "Acrobat JavaScript Highlighter",
contents: wordFind.toString()
app.alert ("Acrobat is done highlighting the current document",3)
//End Code

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