The SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has a simple way to increase the font size of your query. (You can select a value between 20% and 400% in the bottom of that window). But when you try to increase the font size in the result grid, you find nothing. We always have to guess what it says when we share our screens in a Teams meeting. Luckily, someone in my team found the way to fix that problem.
Before I made any changes, my result grid looked like this:
Go to the Tools menu and select Options:
Expand the Environment node and select Fonts and Colors. In this dialog you can change the fonts in nearly every place of SSMS. To increase the font in the result grid, you must select Grid Result:
You can increase the font size as you like or change it to a more pleasing font altogether. Save your changes with OK and restart SSMS.
The next time you run a query your result will use your new font size:
This little trick was hard to discover and easy to forget.
Thanks, this is a great tip.
How do you change the background color of the grid result windown and the object exploratory window?
Hi ta,
I never tried to change the background colour. In newer versions of SSMS you can switch to a dark mode as described by Pinal Dave. I hope this helps.
Regards,
Johnny
Very handy feature, thanks for sharing
This worked for me on a regular query, but did not when in “edit top 200” mode. How do I change the font results for edit mode?