[Gandalf Parker]

Its also not too hard to group together a select group of mages and think of them as your searcher group.
That way
A) figure out what province you want checked
B) clicking on any of them will automatically choose all of that group.
C) spacebar / cast will move thru the whole group
D) select the appropriate search spell and target that province you picked
E) it will move to the next mages spell list, choose the appropriate spell, the same province should come up so just hit ok

I know this might seem obvious to many players as "thats what I do now" but it might be worth mentioning since many new players might not know about creating a mage group. So there is totally manual, mage group, and autosearch as options. The mage group is abit easier than manual, but not as easy as just turning on autosearch. However it is a way to select the province you are targetting and not as hard as doing it one mage at a time every turn.