First field of dialog boxes no longer highlighted?

[JoeDu]

Anyone else experience this? Up until the 2019 release, if you select an object and double-click on a tool like scale, the dialog box pops up and allows you to type in the amount of scaling (or rotation, etc). The first field highlighted automatically and all you had to do was double-click, type the number, and hit enter. With the 2019 release, the field is NOT highlighted and you have to select it. Hitting the tab key works but it does not jump to the first field/button, but to the second (as if the first was already highlighted), requiring you to cycle through. A bug? A feature? Is there a workaround? I know this seems to minor but it's just another upgrade aggravation.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

Please add your vote Rotate dialogue box is now painfully inefficient (CC2019) – Adobe Illustrator Feedback

[JoeDu]

Done. Thanks!

[meganchi]

As a work around, if on a Mac, you can hit Shift + Tab to highlight the previous or first field, instead of cycling through the others.

[JoeDu]

Great idea, but that actually doesn't work either. The tabbing "assumes" you are on the input field. Hitting tab cycles down, but hitting shift-tab highlights the "OK" button (the last in the sequence) and cycles up. The quickest solution might be to tab, shift-tab. That will take some dexterity training. LOL