Reputation: 15698

CTRL+R does not hide the Query Result window in SSMS

I just upgraded from SSMS 2005 to 2012. Previously, I could hit CTRL+R and the Query Results windows would disappear.

After I upgraded to SSMS I ran a query and, out of habit, hit CTRL+R. Nothing happened. At the bottom of SSMS I noticed that the status bar was reporting "(Ctrl+R) was pressed. Waiting for the second key of chord..."

After checking out the details of this keyboard shortcut in the MSDN documentation, I found out that CTRL+R was suppose to hide the resulting window as I had suspected. However, my SSMS isn't behaving as documented.

Is there a way that I can restore this keyboard shortcut to hide my Query Result window?

Upvotes: 71

Answers (9)

Serious Angel

Reputation: 1555

In Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio v18.2 (aka. SSMS 18) you might want to try resetting keyboard mapping scheme in Options -> Environment -> Keyboard -> Keyboard window by clicking Reset button at the top of it with (Default) selected in option list.

Before resetting, it had only one option which processed Ctrl+R press only in DMX Query Editor:

After resetting it showed more options which included SQL Query Editor:

After that, the key shortcut works (Windows 10 1809 x64).

Upvotes: 2

Shawky

Reputation: 36

I tried the solution marked as answer and it didn't work with me. I even tried to uninstall the SSMS and install it back. Nothing was fixed.

Finally I went to the uninstall a program in control panel to see what did I have recently installed, and Voila, "TinyTake" by MangoApps was holding the CTRL+R combination.

I killed the process and everything went back to normal. So finally I went to "Startup" in task manager and disabled it.

Upvotes: 2

Nilesh Umaretiya

Reputation: 786

Go to Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard / General.

Upvotes: 1

Andrei Rantsevich

Reputation: 2935

I have checked it on my SSMS2012 and it works, but I have clean install. The reason might be the upgrade from 2005. You can try re-setting the shortcuts/toolbar settings by

Right-click the Toolbar -> Customize -> Commands -> Reset All -> (I recommend re-start of SSMS)

If it will not help try to assign Ctrl+R to "Window.ShowResultsPane" command. I develop an add-in for SSMS - SSMSBoost, it has lots of good features and one of small ones is dumping all registered Commands with their shortcuts. So, on my machine I found out Ctrl+R to be registered in following contexts to same command:

SQL Query Editor::Ctrl+R    Window.ShowResultsPane
MDX Query Editor::Ctrl+R    Window.ShowResultsPane
DMX Query Editor::Ctrl+R    Window.ShowResultsPane
XMLA Query Editor::Ctrl+R   Window.ShowResultsPane

SSMSBoost will also allow you to re-assign the shortcut to these values, or you can use native SSMS2012 keyboard shortcut editor.

Upvotes: 0

Pranav Kulshrestha

Reputation: 147

In my case, under Keyboard Settings, I searched for Window.ResultsPane. My default keyboard shortcut was Ctrl + R, and doing Ctrl + R was not working for me. I have set it to Ctrl + R, Ctrl + R and now it's working fine for me. Doing a reset is not a good idea since it would be removing any and all custom settings set by the user.

Upvotes: 3