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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.  
  
## Settng 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](../../relational-databases/scripting/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](../../relational-databases/scripting/change-font-color-size-and-style.md)|  
|Describes how to view properties.|[Use the Properties Window in Management Studio](../../relational-databases/scripting/use-the-properties-window-in-management-studio.md)|  
|Location of the F1 help pages for the editor options dialogs.|[Query Options Pages F1 Help](http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/fad98caa-8a29-4b88-8464-f60a5c4fc00e)|