Why has Ctrl+F (Find) in VS2010 stopped automatically searching for the currently selected text?

Question

Normally if you select some text in the Visual Studio editor and press Ctrl+F, when the Find and Replace modeless dialog appears, your selected text is automatically shown in the "Find what:" textbox/dropdown.

For some strange reason this has stopped working - is there a setting that controls this?

Answer 1

it did not stop doing that, you did not tell it yet to use the selected text: go to Tools->Options->Fina and Replace, and check the "Automatically populate Find..." option.