Has anyone overcome the 1000 character limit for Featured Description in saved search? We are trying to export our product descriptions and many have more than 1000 characters.

You could use suitescript to run the search, then save the results in a csv. Just tested running a search in the console, and it returns more than 1000 characters for one field.

It depends on the complexity of the search as well, if you have joins/formulas in the criteria, then the search results are truncated at character limits