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Wow, I just realized my tutorials don't have many (if any) searches. Here are some examples that should help (picked at random from a long script):

myAstyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.item("++Author_year")
app.findPreferences = null;
app.changePreferences = null;
myStory.search("^p^p",false,false,"^p�^p",{appliedParagraphStyle:myAstyle});

myCstyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.item("+++number_sequence");

app.findPreferences = null;
app.changePreferences = null;
myStory.search("�",false,false,undefined,undefined,{appliedParagraphStyle:myCstyle});

app.findPreferences = null;
app.changePreferences = null;
myStory.search("�",false,false,"");

myParaStyles = ["addr", "attr", "cat", "col", "dat", "dim", "ill", "med", "not", "num", "pri", "titl"];
myRunins = ["ad^t", "at^t", "ca^t", "co^t", "da^t", "di^t", "il^t", "m^t", "nt^t", "no^t", "pr^t", "ti^t"];

app.findPreferences = null;
app.changePreferences = null;

for (i=0; i<myParaStyles.length; i++) {
	myText = myRunins[i];
	myPstyle = myDoc.paragraphStyles.item(myParaStyles[i]);

	myStory.search(myText, false, false, undefined, undefined, {appliedParagraphStyle:myPstyle});
}

//replace temporary separators with em-dashes
app.findPreferences = null;
app.changePreferences = null;
myStory.search("|", false, false, "^m");

//two things to do to author dates:
// 1. assign no break using date character style

app.findPreferences = null;
app.changePreferences = null;
myPstyle = app.documents[0].paragraphStyles.item('++Author_year');
myCstyle = app.documents[0].characterStyles.item('--Date');
myStory.search('^9^9^9^9-^9^9^9^9',false,false,undefined,{appliedParagraphStyle:myPstyle},{appliedCharacterStyle:myCstyle});
myStory.search('^9^9^9^9-ca. ^9^9^9^9',false,false,undefined,{appliedParagraphStyle:myPstyle},{appliedCharacterStyle:myCstyle});

//2. convert hyphens to en-dashes

app.findPreferences = null;
app.changePreferences = null;
myStory.search('-',false,false,'�',{appliedParagraphStyle:myPstyle,appliedCharacterStyle:myCstyle});

Hope this helps.

Dave