"Select Same..." Just as in Illustrator in Indesign?

Hello All-
Just wondering if anyone knows if there are any Indesign plug ins or scripts that work similar to Illustrators "Select Same..." feature of finding objects, type & strokes of the same color, value as what youhave already selected.
I work in pre-press and we have clients who spec their type in odd colors (0% black, Registration Color, or in an RGB color which isnt even in their color pallet)
Specificaly in text, it would be great to have a tool that shows what text is colored and where. What objects or anything may be in RGB, because often the color isnt in their pallet. We have these booby traps all the time and it is hard to manually catch them all.
Any direction to such a plug-in or script or advice would be appreciated!
DA

DA,
Select same wouldn't work in ID as you would only be able to select stuff on a single spread.
But have you looked at the selection options in the Find/Change by Object attributes?
That feature is actually more robust than the Illustrator "Select Same" commands.
You can find objects with a certain stroke color and a specific stroke weight.
You can search for objects by corner options, transparency attributes, text wrap options, and so on.
It is so much more powerful than Illustrator!
And you can save complicated queries for future work.
Oh, even BETTER than Illustrator.
You can also APPLY formatting using that dialog box. Much more powerful than Illustrator.

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