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Mike.

Not sure what to advise. As you are W11 (like me) do you have anything that traps keyboard commands before TextPad sees it? I'm thinking Ctrl+Shift+U is something to do with a driver on your computer, graphics etc?
I was once caught out by a shortcut that turned the screen upside down.

I use that often to format comments in source code, don't remember a problem when I was on V8, but I went to V9 ages ago so I'm probably no help.
What do you see here? (in case it helps others to understand the issue)
Cheers,
Also a Michael.

I can reproduce this in V9.6.0
Tried using different quote symbols, brackets etc.
Also happens without setting a word break column number. Simply turning word wrap on and making the window smaller.

Configure -> Preferences -> File -> Use the standard file open dialogue box.

Have you tried doing it from textpad? Configure->Preferences->Associated Files

Assume you have associated .txt files with textpad in Preferences->Associated files.
Probably not much help to you but I can report it works fine for me and always has.
Never needed to use textpad to create an icon so I'm equally of no help there either.

Sounds like the menu bar has gone "floating" and floated off the desktop.
If you don't mind losing other layout settings, close textpad and delete or rename Roaming\Helios\TextPad\9\GUIConfig.xml from %appdata%

I have just tried (using 9.3.1) enabling and then disabling "Show clock on status bar" and there is still a problem after that when making the window smaller.

I don't know if it is relevant, but I have found that after enabling the clock on the status bar, and then disabling it, reducing the width of the window hides the status bar panels on the right. As if it sets a minimum width for the first (left most panel) equal to it's current width. Screenshot ...

Unless I run textpad as Administrator, when changing any preferences or exiting Textpad I get a warning "Access to c:\Program files\Textpad\System\MSAPPS.BND was denied. The actual file changes depending upon keystroke compatibility selected.
9.1.0 on Windows 10 Pro and 8.16.0 64bit on Windows 7

Same here (with windows 10 and 9.0.1), but I managed to open 15 files with short(ish) names. Seems to be dependant on total length of file names.

But your example showing it working outside TP uses copy, not xcopy

When using XCOPY to copy a source to a destination it normally prompts asking if the destination specifies a file or directory, but that may be OS version specific. The simple answer is to use copy, as you have found.

By "Nothing at all" do you hit the button and never see the dialog box? Next question, have you recently altered your screen resolution, or connected another monitor? If yes, then it's a known pain in the rear. Select or click find (You would then expect to see a dialog box pop up), then try Alt ...

Thanks for the reply. I should have said I'd already tried renaming ConfigState.xml (and GuiState.xml) before posting which didn't help. I've just checked again with a fresh ConfigState.xml and can confirm that every time the go-to dialogue comes up (Ctrl-G or Search->Go To..) the extend selection ...