{"id":1046,"date":"2015-12-03T21:46:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2016-02-20T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T13:00:19","slug":"increasing-the-font-in-ssms-on-the-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Increasing the Font in SSMS on the Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I have learned a neat trick to quickly increase or decrease the font size.\u00a0 This something I found with a different database product, but was happy to see work in the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1015 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CtrlKey-300x83.jpg\" alt=\"CtrlKey\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CtrlKey-300x83.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CtrlKey-210x58.jpg 210w, http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CtrlKey.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the query window in focus, hold down the Ctrl key while scrolling the wheel of the mouse.\u00a0 The font size of all the text in the query window will either increase or decrease depending on the way the wheel is scrolled.\u00a0 This works with SQL Server 2012 version or greater.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SSMSqueryWindow.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1048 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SSMSqueryWindow.jpg\" alt=\"SSMS QueryWindow\" width=\"557\" height=\"517\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Final note,\u00a0 this will also work on the Result Tab is set to text.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SSMSresultsTab.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1049 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SSMSresultsTab.jpg\" alt=\"SSMS results Tab to Text\" width=\"784\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SSMSresultsTab.jpg 784w, http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SSMSresultsTab-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SSMSresultsTab-210x165.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I have learned a neat trick to quickly increase or decrease the font size.\u00a0 This something I found with a different database product, but was happy to see work &hellip; <a class=\"readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/?p=1046\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sql-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theSQLReport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}