I was delivering a SQL Server upgrade class last week in Toronto Canada. I got asked a slightly off topic question. It went something like this…
“Can you get the text in management studio to word-wrap?”
Word-wrap is not on by default. You can see from the image below we have scroll bar which we need to use to read the full line of code.
It’s a small thing, but I had never looked for this option before.
Not knowing the answer I went straight to my demo machine and started looking at the SSMS options in the tool bar:
Tools > Options > expanded the Text Edit
You can see there is an option for word wrap in Management Studio. If you choose the Word wrap option and the sub-option to show a glyph when the text has wrapped you get word wrap and you'll know when Management studio is doing it too.
It helps makes your code easier to read too and removes the need for a scroll bar.
