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Did you know... How to show and hide find messages? - #082

Far too often, we uncheck the "Show this message again" checkbox not knowing how to get the message back.

A Find message box with a Always show this message

For Find and Replace, you can specify whether to hide or show these message boxes at Tools - Options - Environment - Find and Replace, options Display informational messages and Display warning messages.

Find And Replace Tools Options

Informational Icon Informational messages are those "FYI - For your information" style messages.  Examples include "no more occurrences found," "the specified text was not found," "Find reached the starting point," and so forth.

Warning Icon Warning messages are those that ask a question along the lines of "are you sure?"  For example, "Do you want to cancel?", "Do you want to open files when you do a find in replace in closed files to enable undo," and so forth.

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Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:00 AM by saraford

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Saurabh said:

Thanks for your tip - I had this issue in VS 2003 editor and spent a lot of time googling but never found any correct answers. Your blog post help me reset my alert messages.

# November 13, 2007 7:16 AM

Секреты Visual Studio said:

Часто мы убираем галочку с "Show this message again" (Всегда показывать это сообщение) и не

# February 4, 2009 3:37 AM
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