Recently, I was trying to show queries to my client in an online meeting. Suddenly, my client asked me to please increase the font size as I could not see it properly. So, I followed the below approaches to make the font bigger in SQL Server Management Studio.
How To Make Font Bigger In SQL Server Management Studio
Let us discuss two simple approaches individually.
Approach-1: Using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
To make font bigger in SQL Server Management Studio, follow the below steps.
1. Open your SQL Server Management Studio and connect to your SQL Server instance.
2. Click on the Tools menu –> Select “Options,” as shown in the screenshot below.
3. Expand the Environment node, click on the Fonts and Colors link, ensure to choose the Text Editor option for the Show settings for: dropdown, select the desired size, and click the OK button as shown in the screenshot below.
Now, the font size has changed successfully, as shown below.
Approach-2: Using the keyboard shortcut
- Press and hold the Ctrl key from your keyboard, then scroll up the mouse wheel to increase the font size.
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Conclusion
To Make Font Bigger In SQL Server Management Studio, you can either use the SQL Server management tools menu or you can use the keyboard shortcut to do this as mentioned in this article.
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Rajkishore Sahoo is a Microsoft Azure consultant with more than 14 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native data solutions across Azure and AWS, focused on Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and the pipelines that connect them to production apps. Day to day, he provisions Azure SQL instances, configures firewalls and connection strings, tunes queries for cloud workloads, and wires databases into Azure Functions and Logic Apps. Read more