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title: "Configure Editors (SQL Server Management Studio)"
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# Configure Editors (SQL Server Management Studio)

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You can customize the operation of the [!INCLUDE[ssManStudioFull](../../includes/ssmanstudiofull-md.md)] editors by configuring the options for each editor.  
  
## Setting Editor Options  
 Most of the editor options are set by using the **Tools** menu and selecting **Options...** to display an **Options** dialog. In the **Options** dialog, open the **Text Editor** node in the left pane to set code and text editing options. The nodes under Text Editor apply to specific editors:  
  
1.  **All Languages** - options set using this node apply to all of the [!INCLUDE[ssManStudio](../../includes/ssmanstudio-md.md)] editors. You can override these settings by using the other nodes to set different options for a specific editor.  
  
2.  **Plain Text** - options set using this node apply to the MDX, DMX, and text editors.  
  
3.  **Transact-SQL** - options set using this node apply to the Database Engine Query Editor.  
  
4.  **XML** - options set using this node apply to the XML for Analysis editor.  
  
 Open the **Query Execution** or **Query Results** nodes to customize the execution of queries and how the results are displayed.  
  
## Editor Configuration Tasks  
  
|Task Description|Topic|  
|----------------------|-----------|  
|Describes how to specify that an editor be opened by double-clicking on a file with a specified extension in Windows Explorer.|[Associate File Extensions to a Code Editor](./associate-file-extensions-to-a-code-editor.md)|  
|Describes how to customize fonts to make code and text more readable.|[Change Font Color, Size, and Style](./change-font-color-size-and-style.md)|  
|Describes how to view properties.|[Use the Properties Window in Management Studio](./use-the-properties-window-in-management-studio.md)|  
|Location of the F1 help pages for the editor options dialogs.|[Query Options Pages F1 Help](../f1-help/f1-help-for-server-connections-sql-server-management-studio.md)|