Visual Studio 2012 Search Scope

Question

Visual Studio 2012 Quick Find Dialog

Is there a shortcut, or a way to make one, for changing search scope in Visual Studio 2012?

The new quick search dialog was redesigned, and it is very clunky to get to search scope via the tab key, as the initial keyboard focus is in the first textbox and the scope dropdown was moved relatively far away.

In Visual Studio 2010, it was as simple as hitting the tab key once and you're there.

Visual Studio 2012 Quick Find Dialog

Answer 1

Mr. President, you can always use ctrl + shift + F to bring up the old search dialog. Then you can just tab.

Answer 2

In Visual Studio 2015 and 2017, Alt + L moves the focus to the dropdown for scope. I haven't tried other VS versions.

EDIT:

In addition,

Alt + w toggles the whole word option

Alt + c toggles the match case option

Alt + e toggles the regular expressions option

Enter does the search. F3 repeats the last search.

CTrl + Enter pops out the search options sub menu

These are valid for VS2015 and VS2017