Keyboard shortcut for "Help" search menu (CS6)

Hello,
In CS5 I managed to remove all shortcuts overriding the CMD + Shift + 7, thus being able to use that standar shortcut for executing a menu search on Mac OSX.
Since switching to CS6 (and importing my keyboard shortcuts from CS5), CMD + Shift + 7 doens't work anymore when I'm working in an artboard.
_However_, if I have a modal view (e.g. "Preferences > General") open, the shortcut works as intended...
Any leads, anyone?

Hi Michael,
Command . will close the spotlight window but keep the search in there.
It will be there next time you hit Command spacebar
Hitting the Escape keep will be the same as hitting the x
Lori

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