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

Question

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?

Solution 1

1. Open the Tools menu select Options...
2. Under the Environment node click on the Keyboard node
3. Click the Reset button
4. Click Yes on the dialog that pops up

That should solve your issue. If not please add a comment to this thread with details about your issue.

Solution 2

This is missing in SSMS 2016 as well, assign it manually as shown below.

Solution 3

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.

Solution 4

If the previous answers does not help,

Use Ctrl+ ALT+ Shift + R this is already set in SSMS 2012.

This one worked for me..

Solution 5

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.

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Comments

[RLH]

This worked. The really odd thing is, I did a fresh install and not, techincally, a real upgrade. I don't recall the installer ever asking to import any settings and, if it did, my SSMS should have behaved as normal. Regardless, this has fixed my issue.

[Gaurav123]

@Charles : Yes, It worked for me. Thanks Up Vote for you !! :)

[gligoran]

This worked for me, too. But I did need to restart SSMS.

[Royi Namir]

Worked for me in SSMS2014

[ashubuntu]

ALT+R sounds good while setting the new shortcut, and instead of using Global option, SQL Query Editor sounds sensible.

[RLH]

Though not quite the answer most people will need from my original question, I understand that this one may help others. I’ll give you an upvote to bump you up the list. Thanks for giving a secondary option. If others aren’t using this tool, maybe they are using others.

[Nyra]

This too worked for me. First I checked that the shortcut was still mapped correctly, and it was, so I did this as a fix, and it started working. I had not updated anything, I had just executed a query (and had been using this shortcut while developing and viewing results vs query), and then it stopped working.. Is this a known bug? cannot find info on 'why' this is happening, but it happens sporadically to me. FWIW - it stopped working when my query threw an error, and it affected the entire SSMS instance (all query windows).