regarding my question about editing tips and keyboard access keys in VS2003
In order to locate what shortcut or keyboard access key I should use to accomplish certain task in VS2003. Some one mentioned the following:
choose Tools/Customize, look for the appropriate commands (for example, the ones I mentioned above can all be found in the "Edit" menu on that dialog), drag them to your menu and note the keystroke once it's there.
I could't do find that. Can u tell me how to do that pls.
Thanks
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R.Tutus] at [2007-12-24]
That was me, I believe. But it's pretty much as I've described it above. Under the "Tools" menu, you should find a "Customize..." menu entry. Click it, and you should see a dialog which has two tabs on it -- "Toolbars" and "Commands." Pick the "Commands" tab. You should now see a box with two listviews on it. The left-hand listview shows the types of commands (Edit-related commands, File-related commands, etc.) The right-hand listview shows the commands for that type. So, for example, you can select "Edit" in the laft-hand list, and in the right-hand list you'll see (for example) "Replace in Files" (among many other commands). You can drag that command to my main Edit menu (yup, right out of the dialog), which should pop open when you hover over it, and then "drop" it in the menu (a line will help you line up the command where you want it). After I do that, I can see the entry in the menu, and note that the shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+H. If I don't actually want the command in there, I can select it in the menu and drag it back out -- note that your toolbars and menus can be edited in this way whenever the "Customize..." choice was made. This should work in all of the versions of VS, because I remember using it a lot back in VS2002/2003 as well as in 2005.
However, if all you care about is knowing the shortcut (and you don't want an entry in the menu), then choosing "Tools" and "Options" will get you there -- click "Show All Settings" at the bottom, select the "Environment" node, then "Keyboard" subnode, and in the right-hand pane you can change your scheme or select a command and view or change its shortcut. (The latter works in VS2005, and I *think* also in VS2003 & 2002, though I don't have a copy of those handy.)
Hope this helps,
--Matt--*
