>>just to follow up - having de/reinstalled twice yesterday in dealing with my sp3 problem, I note that the CTRL F behaviour remains as it was. I still can't use it within a form method.
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>How about Alt+N? That's the recommended one that's shown in the Find Window, and it's what I've been using. Have you tried that? I hadn't been using Ctrl+F (I see it on the menu), though I did test it and that works the same way as Alt+N on my machine...

hang on...

nope - but it doesn't throw me back out to the project manager like ctrl f does. Y'know whats even more irritating is that CTRL G works! So if I set up my ctrl f outside vfp, I can come back in and use ctrl g to flip between occurrences! Make sense of that if you will!

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>I wouldn't be shocked to find that your Ctrl+F shortcut is being set by >another app somewhere, and somehow set globally.

possible, but then why am I having the problem nowhere else? I've got vfp open as we speak. I can use ctrl f here in this page, yet if I go into a form method - Zap!

> I have an even worse problem on my machine occasionally, something resets the >Tab key to open Win Explorer every time it's depressed every week or two,

have you tried prozac? :-)

>and I have to reboot to reset it. I've looked everywhere, and finally just >given up and learned to live with it :)

thats the thing, isn't it. We at the bleeding edge have learned to live with this stuff. Our granchildren will never believe it of course...

Harry