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Did you know... Ctrl+F does a quick find in the current document? - #066

The standard keyboard shortcut for finding text in most applications is Ctrl+F.  In Visual Studio, this kicks off a Quick Find in the current document.

QuickFindIntroduction

Quick Find will pre-populate the find what text with whatever text is selected in the editor or the word that the cursor is currently on.

Additionally, this find and replace window is actually a tool window (not a dialog), meaning that you can dock it somewhere and type in the editor with it opened.

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Posted: Monday, October 22, 2007 3:00 AM by saraford

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Computers » Did you know… Ctrl+F does a quick find in the current document? said:

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# October 22, 2007 6:42 AM

MSDN Blog Postings » 2007 » October » 22 said:

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# October 22, 2007 7:35 AM

sergio giraldo said:

Actually, it will be filled with text under cursor only if you set "Automatically populate Find What with text from the editor" under Tools/Options/Environment/Find and Replace

# October 22, 2007 9:15 AM

Jason Haley said:

# October 22, 2007 10:03 AM

Brian Carroll said:

Actually, it doesn't necessarily do a Current Document search.  The "Look In" list will automatically fill with the selection you made during your last search.  I wish it would automatically default to Current Document though.  

# October 22, 2007 7:34 PM

Muhammad Qasim Pasta said:

Select word/text and press Ctrl+F3 ..

# October 24, 2007 5:24 AM

Visual Studio 2008 ワンポイント said:

ほとんどのアプリケーションでは、テキストを検索するための標準的なショートカット キーとして Ctrl + F キーが使用されます。Visual Studio でこのキーを押すと、現在のドキュメントに対してクイック検索が実行されます。

# July 7, 2008 3:26 AM

Секреты Visual Studio said:

Нажатием Ctrl+F вы запускаете диалог поиска и замены. Теперь вы можете развернуть Find Options (в русской

# December 12, 2008 2:08 AM
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