diff --git a/platform/vcs-impl/src/com/intellij/openapi/vcs/merge/MultipleFileMergeDialog.form b/platform/vcs-impl/src/com/intellij/openapi/vcs/merge/MultipleFileMergeDialog.form
index 38e9bfe42b08..15724dc45ceb 100644
--- a/platform/vcs-impl/src/com/intellij/openapi/vcs/merge/MultipleFileMergeDialog.form
+++ b/platform/vcs-impl/src/com/intellij/openapi/vcs/merge/MultipleFileMergeDialog.form
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
               <text resource-bundle="messages/VcsBundle" key="multiple.file.merge.accept.theirs"/>
             </properties>
           </component>
-          <component id="39393" class="javax.swing.JButton" binding="myMergeButton" default-binding="true">
+          <component id="39393" class="javax.swing.JButton" binding="myMergeButton" custom-create="true" default-binding="true">
             <constraints>
               <grid row="2" column="0" row-span="1" col-span="1" vsize-policy="0" hsize-policy="3" anchor="0" fill="1" indent="0" use-parent-layout="false"/>
             </constraints>
diff --git a/platform/vcs-impl/src/com/intellij/openapi/vcs/merge/MultipleFileMergeDialog.java b/platform/vcs-impl/src/com/intellij/openapi/vcs/merge/MultipleFileMergeDialog.java
index 52fd4fce9305..4959cf997cf3 100644
--- a/platform/vcs-impl/src/com/intellij/openapi/vcs/merge/MultipleFileMergeDialog.java
+++ b/platform/vcs-impl/src/com/intellij/openapi/vcs/merge/MultipleFileMergeDialog.java
@@ -151,11 +151,6 @@ public class MultipleFileMergeDialog extends DialogWrapper {
         acceptRevision(false);
       }
     });
-    myMergeButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
-      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
-        showMergeDialog();
-      }
-    });
     myTable.getSelectionModel().addListSelectionListener(new ListSelectionListener() {
       public void valueChanged(final ListSelectionEvent e) {
         updateButtonState();
@@ -327,6 +322,22 @@ public class MultipleFileMergeDialog extends DialogWrapper {
     MergeVersion.MergeDocumentVersion.reportProjectFileChangeIfNeeded(myProject, file);
   }
 
+  private void createUIComponents() {
+    Action mergeAction = new AbstractAction() {
+      @Override
+      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
+        showMergeDialog();
+      }
+    };
+    mergeAction.putValue(DEFAULT_ACTION, Boolean.TRUE);
+    myMergeButton = createJButtonForAction(mergeAction);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public JComponent getPreferredFocusedComponent() {
+    return myTable;
+  }
+
   private static String decodeContent(final VirtualFile file, final byte[] content) {
     return StringUtil.convertLineSeparators(CharsetToolkit.bytesToString(content, file.getCharset()));
   }