ABAP Find Command

When we upgraded our SAPGUI to 640 (from I believe 620), we noticed one new feature. In the ABAP editor in display mode, if you press the find button (or CTL F), you get a popup that asks for the string and has two radio buttons for the direction (up and down). Up is the default. Most of the people I know would rather have the default as down, but I havent been able to find any place to change this setting.
Do you know of any way to change the default of the find command to down?
Rob
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Rob Burbank

Hi!
An another way to find something: in SE38, give the program name, and choose menu Tools - Search in source code.
If you want to serch in more program click on the multiple selection beside the global in program line and enter Z* in the first line which appears.
Emm, to change the direction seems not any easy, but for me it is working correctly.
Regards
Tamás
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Tamás Nyisztor

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