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title: "Display Query and View Designer Panes (Visual Database Tools) | Microsoft Docs"
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# Display Query and View Designer Panes (Visual Database Tools)
  The Query and View Designer is composed of four separate panes: the Diagram pane, the Criteria pane, the SQL pane, and the Results pane. Typically when you open a view or create a new query all four windows open, but if you need to open any of these windows, you can do so as long as the Query and View Designer is open.  
  
### To display Query and View Designer panes  
  
1.  Open a view or create a new query to open the Query and View Designer.  
  
2.  From the **Query Designer** menu, point to **Pane** and click the name of the pane you want to open.  
  
## See Also  
 [Create Queries (Visual Database Tools)](visual-database-tools.md)   
 [Open the Query and View Designer (Visual Database Tools)](open-the-query-and-view-designer-visual-database-tools.md)