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FredMyers992
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October 16, 2018
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Exit Search final message box with <ESC> key?

  • October 16, 2018
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Did the final Search message box used to allow <ESC> key to exit?   "Adobe Acrobat has finished searching the document.  No more matches were found."  I'm always hitting the <ESC> key because that's what I would do to exit the Search dialog prior to getting that final message.  Allowing <ESC> to exit the message box would make things easier for the user.  I'm pretty sure older versions of Acrobat Reader operated this way.  Please bring back <ESC> to exit the Search message box.

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    Correct answer FredMyers992

    You're right.  However ... the Search box itself has no Exit button: merely Previous and Next.  Yet, mysteriously, hitting the <ESC> key causes it to exit.

    Consistency among applications is good.  Internal consistency within a single, given application is much better.

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    Test Screen Name
    Legend
    October 17, 2018

    Agreed.

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    Test Screen Name
    Legend
    October 16, 2018

    The long standing convention (for over 30 years) is that Esc presses a Cancel button, while Enter presses an OK button (or the currently highlighted button). Some programmers also use Esc to mean "close window" but this is pretty random. Unfortunately, in dialogs with neither OK nor cancel, it is completely random what works; sometimes Esc, sometimes Ctrl+F4, sometimes Ctrl+W...

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    FredMyers992AuthorCorrect answer
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    October 16, 2018

    You're right.  However ... the Search box itself has no Exit button: merely Previous and Next.  Yet, mysteriously, hitting the <ESC> key causes it to exit.

    Consistency among applications is good.  Internal consistency within a single, given application is much better.

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