On a sales order on a search result what column would give me the status as 'SalesOrd:A' or is that even possible?

You could use a case statement

Thanks. I had built out lib file for statuses and was using these on records but the search returns something different. SalesOrder:G is billed but a search would return fullyBilled, just have to find out the text strings for a search result and extend my lib file a little

Would this help? http://blog.prolecto.com/2013/08/30/netsuite-searchfilter-transaction-internal-status-list/

That's more or less what I have but more complete so thanks for that. Now I want to have the corresponding result for a status column in a search result. So Sales Order:Billed -> SalesOrd:G -> fullyBilled (on search result).