Saved searches is a feature of the Find/Replace panel of the Control Board. You can use it to create a collection of find/replace patterns that you intend to use repeatedly on different documents.

The saved searches can be accessed through the "Search options" menu of the Find/Replace panel:

To add a new item to the saved searches, specify the desired find/replace pattern in the Find/Replace panel, then use the "Save Current Search..." command of the "Search options" menu:

and specify name for a new saved search:

All the current find/replace configuration of the Find/Replace panel would be automatically included in the saved search.

You can have both simple saved searches containing only the "find what" text, and complex saved searches allowing to search for formatting and format found text with new formatting. Any saved search also includes the "whole words", "exact match" and "use wildcards" options:

Let's take an example. Let's suppose that you regularly use the find/replace pattern for reformatting phone numbers, and would like to add it to your collection of saved searches. To do so, specify the corresponding "find what" and "replace with" patterns, and make sure that the "Use wildcards" option is on:

Then click the "Save Current Search..." command:

and specify a descriptive name for the saved search:

After that, whenever you need to reformat phone numbers in any of your documents, you can load the corresponding saved search:

To delete or rename previously saved searches, use the "Edit Saved Searches..." command:

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