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# New Full-Text Catalog (General Page)
  Use this dialog box to create a new full-text catalog.  
  
 **To use SQL Server Management Studio to create a full-text catalog**  
  
-   [Create and Manage Full-Text Catalogs](../relational-databases/search/create-and-manage-full-text-catalogs.md)  
  
## UIElement List  
 **Full-text catalog name**  
 The name of the full-text catalog.  
  
 **Owner**  
 The owner of the full-text catalog.  
  
## Options Panel  
 **Set as default catalog**  
 Select to set this catalog as the default catalog for new full-text catalogs.  
  
 **Accent sensitivity**  
 Indicates whether the catalog is sensitive or insensitive to diacritical marks, such as a tilde (**~**), acute accent mark (**´**), or umlaut (**¨**). If you select **Insensitive**, diacritical marks are ignored in the full-text indexes that are associated with this full-text catalog. For information about diacritical marks, see [Diacritical Mark](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diacritic) in the Merriam-Webster website.  
  
## See Also  
 [CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG (Transact-SQL)](/sql/t-sql/statements/create-fulltext-catalog-transact-sql)