Overview
It’s common today to use the CTRL+W in various applications including most web browsers.
If you’ve used Visual Studio you’ve probably noticed that this keyboard shortcut does not work when trying to close the currently opened tab.
In this article, I’ll show you how you can easily configure Visual Studio to close the currently opened tab.
Configuration
Ok, lets get started …
Here’s how you can configure the keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio:
- Navigate to
TOOLS > OPTIONS > KEYBOARD - Add
CTRL+Wglobal shortcut toWindow.CloseDocumentWindow - Remove the
CTRL+Wshortcut forEdit.SelectCurrentWord
Final Thoughts
I hope you’ve found this quick Visual Studio tip to be useful. If you have found alternative ways to configure this, please feel free to share them in the comments below.
Happy coding 🙂
G’day, I’m a technical solutions consultant based in Perth, Australia that specialises in the Microsoft technology stack, including .NET, Dynamics 365, Azure and general web development etc.
This blog is my place to share my thoughts, helpful solutions and just random nerdy stuff.
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Thanks for the clear explanation!
I cannot believe we still need to do this. It also seems that people are (still) forgetting that this shortcut exists and should exist. I can’t understand why someone would want to use ctrl+f4 instead. This kind of shortcut needs to be close to the home row for any power user to quickly work with any kind of text editing. (Which is what coding amounts to, obviously)
Totally agree with you Joep!