With old Office, I could search for a word in a document, with Ctl F, then when found just do Alt F4, to close the search box.

Now there is a Navigation pane, which have to close manually, with a mouse, which I find very annoying. 

Is there any way to get back the old style search box, or close the Navigation pane without having to use the mouse?

Thanks

 

 

 

Pressing Esc key closes search box for me.

thank you!

In old Word the search ox would close on closing the file, later versions keep it open, this is what  I found confusing.

Thank you

 

Just for info, you can press CTRL-H to display the Advanced Find dialogue, thus bypassing the Navigation Pane. Esc closes the Advanced Find dialogue.