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There are online services, and software, that create designed CVs and output them in a bastard PDF format that is entirely unreadable to ATS's and unsearchable. They also tend to crash Acrobat. Word CVs are a much safer bet if you want to be found....
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You can copy and paste well from PDFs these days.
The reason is that Word documents work much better with applicant tracking systems. There are systems that create CVs as nicely designed PDFs, but the code in them is extremely complex and unparseable by the ATS, so they become invisible...
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