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[CTRL]+[D] Focus to the Quick Find document.

Visual Studio Tip / Trick #012 English Transcription:

Today's visual studio trick of the day is a re-post of Sara Ford's trick number 12 in video originally published august 2007. Trick number 12 is an introduction to the quick find window in visual studio. That's referring to this drop down list. It is actually accessible by the keyboard with the [CTRL]+[D] short cut. And then [Alt]+[Down Arrow] is the standard keyboard combination to show the contents of a drop down list. And now you can select from your historical searches. Once you've typed in what you are looking for, simply press [ENTER]. [Enter] again will find the next item. And [SHIFT]+[ENTER] will go backwards. Now a couple of things about this window, you might be wondering why its even there? Because there are so many different ways to find an item. You have the [CTRL]+[F]. Then you also have [CTRL]+[I] for incremental search. And one thing that's nice about [CTRL]+[D] to get into your find is that it stores a history of the last items you've searched for. And these are actually input, wether you type something in right into the quick find menu or you used any of the search methods with the [CTRL]+[F] or [CTRL]+[I] searches. And now one thing else, one other thing you want to notice about this is that, if you search for an item, for example I select to third item here for "Function", now my [F3] to re-search and [SHIFT]+[F3] will search that item. So it's kind of like brings that up on the stack. And its kinda nice to get used to with the [CTRL]+[D] to find the items you have searched for in the past.

Video Repost of: Sara Ford Tip#12