How to customize formatting styles with profiles

A formatting profile is a saved set of options that help layout and beautify SQL code. SQL Complete includes two groups of formatting profiles - Devart and Custom. The Devart profiles are the default profiles that come with the tool.

Here is the list of the predefined formatting profiles:

  • Collapsed
  • Commas before
  • Compact
  • Default
  • Extended
  • Indented
  • MSDN SQL
  • Right aligned
  • Stack compact

To learn how to create and customize formatting profiles in SQL Complete, see Profiles.

Select and apply a formatting profile

To select a style to be applied, right-click the query window, click Active Format Profile and choose one of the predefined formatting profiles. After that, format the query document by pressing Ctrl+K, then Ctrl+D.

Set a preferred formatting profile

By default, the active formatting profile in SQL Complete is the built-in Default formatting profile. In order to set a different style from the default one, do the following:

  1. On the SQL Complete menu, click Options.
  2. In the Options window, go to the Formatting > Profiles tab.
  3. Choose one of the predefined formatting profiles.
  4. Click Set as Active.
  5. Click OK.

Modify a formatting profile

Predefined profiles cannot be modified. However, you can use the settings of these profiles as a basis for your own custom profiles to beautify your SQL code. Just do the following:

  1. On the SQL Complete menu, click Options.
  2. In the Options window, go to the Formatting > Profiles tab.
  3. Choose one of the predefined formatting profiles.
  4. Click Open Selected.
  5. Edit formatting options in the left-hand pane.
  6. Click Save As.
  7. Enter a name for your new custom profile.
  8. Click OK.

Create a new formatting profile

  1. On the SQL Complete menu, click Options.
  2. In the Options window, go to the Formatting > Profiles tab.
  3. Click Create New.
  4. Enter a name for your new profile.
  5. Click OK.

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