{"id":646,"date":"2010-11-11T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Configuring-SSMS-for-presenting.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:51:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:51:28","slug":"configuring-ssms-for-presenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/configuring-ssms-for-presenting\/","title":{"rendered":"Configuring SSMS for presenting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">A few people have asked over the last few days how Kimberly and I have SSMS set up for presenting so I thought I&#39;d do a quick blog post explaining what we do.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">The first thing is to go download <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb897434\">ZoomIt<\/a> so that you can zoom in the screen and people can see the details. Don&#39;t present without it.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">All the things I&#39;m going to show you are accessed by going to Tools -&gt; Options. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">First thing you need to do is change the fonts so they&#39;re readable on&nbsp;the big screen. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ssms2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Change the font to something fixed-width and bump the font-size up. Also change the way that highlighted text looks so it&#39;s really clear what you&#39;re highlighting. Line numbers are also good to have on &#8211; do that in Text Editor-&gt;All Languages. Then go to where it says &quot;Show settings for:&quot; and change the font size for Grid Results and Test Results too. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Next thing to do is change the way query results are displayed, both for Results to Grid and Results to Text.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ssms3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">When&nbsp;you&#39;re displaying at 1024&#215;768, there isn&#39;t space on screen to show the query window and the results window and have people make sense of it. You need to change things so the results are displayed in a separate tab, and SSMS switches to that tab when the query finishes.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Most of these are common sense, but here&#39;s an expert tip for you: include the query in the result set. This means that if you&#39;re interrupted during a demo by questions, and you&#39;ve unhighlighted the T-SQL you ran in the query window, you can flip to the results tab&nbsp;and see what you just executed. This is *really* important for demos where code has to be run in the correct order.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">And that&#39;s it &#8211; happy presenting!<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">PS My good friend Buck Woody also posted about this today &#8211; see his post <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/buckwoody\/archive\/2010\/11\/11\/setting-up-sql-server-management-studio-for-teaching-or-demos.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">PPS Bill Ramos posted a comment about turning on word wrap too &#8211; good advice. I actually write all my demo scripts with a hard CR+LF at the 1024&#215;768 screen size cut-off in case I&#39;m ever using a system that isn&#39;t set up the way I like it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few people have asked over the last few days how Kimberly and I have SSMS set up for presenting so I thought I&#39;d do a quick blog post explaining what we do. The first thing is to go download ZoomIt so that you can zoom in the screen and people can see the details. 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