>>Has anyone seen VFP display a find dialog as shown in the attached image? It isn't the one I'm used to seeing and on top of that it does not even work, i.e., when I type in a string that I know for a fact is in the method I'm editing, it always says "Not found".
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>>I had to quit VFP and start over before I got the standard Find dialog back. WTF?
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>It's Help search dialog. Somehow VFP thinks that you have help open.

Well I did have the help file open at one point during my VFP session. The thing is, I checked and double checked that the cursor was in the method's code window when I was hitting Ctrl+F. I even activated the context menu to select the Find option and both methods kept showing that "non-standard" Find dialog. Weird.