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"Russ" wrote:

> Only specify the minimum criteria to find your text. Outline level 8 already
> assumes certain formatting, you may be also specifying formatting that is
> working at cross purposes from what Outline level 8 uses, and thus, the
> combination of formatting to search for is impossible to find.

This is the heart of the matter. Once I began minimising my search
criteria, I discovered that even certain (perhaps all) left margin settings
are associated with other features (e.g., the presence of borders)! This
seems very much like bad design to me, but maybe there's a reason for it. I
ended up searching only for the characters corresponding to a given
paragraph's outline level (e.g., 'IV.^t').

Besides wondering why one cannot use a macro to search for individual
formatting criteria in isolation, I also wonder why the search I used for the
initial recording of the macro, which used the 'Outline level' formatting
criterion, actually did find the paragraphs with the correct outline level,
even though those paragraphs did not have the other characteristics
associated with that outline level.

Thank you again for solving my problem.

James Watson