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The Project Options in the Delphi IDE has a few option (like the Search Path) each with an ellipsis button (the one on the right having only three dots ... in the image below) to pop-up a dialog.

What keyboard shortcut activates that button?

Project Options with ellipsis button

Jeroen Wiert Pluimers
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Since the Delphi 8, ellipsis button can be activated by pressing Alt + Down, same as for combobox-style fields (with arrow button). Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Enter.

In Delphi 7 and older, ellipsis buttons were standalone buttons so you could use Tab followed by the Space or Enter key.

gabr
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    Since basically forever: Delphi 2007 has it, that's the oldest version I've got on this computer, but I'd guess it dates back to at least Delphi 8. – dummzeuch Jun 22 '16 at 15:18
  • Thanks. I think it's even in the `CUA` list `Alt-Down` action `Open selected drop-down list` (though the getting the original IBM CUA documents is extremely hard). Some lists also say `F4` should have the same behaviour but that doesn't work. – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers Jun 22 '16 at 18:01
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    @dummzeuch: In D7, the IDE implements its ellipse buttons as standalone buttons that can simply be tabbed to and then clicked on using the `Space` or `Enter` key. `Alt-Down` does open its drop-down lists, though. Delphi switched to the new Galileo IDE in D8, which introduced the new UI that (amongst other things) embeds the ellipse buttons in the input fields. – Remy Lebeau Jun 22 '16 at 18:37