I think that I've seen this somewhere but can't find it now.
I have a text file containing 302 lines of text
Each line is the name of a search I wish to save
Ideally, I'd like to create these searches alphabetically in 17 collections (numbered 1-17)
18 searches per collection
My documents are stored on my Z: drive
Is there an easy way?
The only way to automate that would be to generate the XML config data based on your input file.
If the "No Match, Junctions and Links" part isn't important, you could simplify things by making a toolbar button (or menu item or whatever you want) for each name wildcard you want to search for.
The Find command can be run with the name wildcard as an argument, and the collection to output things to as a second argument, without needing a filter to be defined. There isn't currently a way to tell it to ignore links without using a filter, although that is on our to-do list.
(FWIW, nothing here, at least shown in the screenshot, involves Windows Search and stored queries. Just the Find tool and filters.)