Options Window: Fonts and Colors

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You use this panel to customize the font, background color, and foreground color for text and elements in the Source Editor. You can specify the font and color according to editor type. You can also use this panel to specify the colors of changed text when comparing file revisions

You can access this panel by choosing Tools > Options from the main menu, and then clicking the Fonts & Colors category.

Editor Profile settings

You can create profiles to save different custom font and color settings. You can switch between profiles to quickly change between saved custom Source Editor settings. If you modify either of the profiles included in the IDE, you can click Restore to restore the selected profile to the default settings.

To create a profile:

  1. Click Fonts & Colors in the Options window.
  2. Click Duplicate next to the Profile drop-down list to open the Create New Profile dialog box.
  3. Type a name in the Create New Profile dialog box.
  4. Modify the settings in the Options window.
  5. Click OK to close the Options window.

Use the following tabs to customize the fonts and colors as they appear in the Source Editor:

You can modify the appearance of text and elements in the Source Editor by setting the following properties in the tabs. To modify a property, select an item in the Category or Highlighting pane and then modify the color or font in the right pane.

The Preview area displays how the selected changes will appear in the Source Editor.

See Also
Using the Options Window
Importing Settings from a Previous Version of the IDE

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