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Originally Posted by malisa

Thanks for pointing me there. It wasn't there, but that did prompt me to look in the preferences of Evernote. That was the keyboard shortcut for "Search in Evernote" which evidently also fires Evernote.

I deleted that and all is well.

Thanks so much!

You can actually record a new shortcut in Evernote and thus keep one in both applications. I use Cmd+ctrl+E myself if I want to search for items in Evernote and the standard Cmd+ctrl+F to focus in OF. You'll find that under Evernote's preferences as you describe.