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See these options in Options dialog from TOOLS menu:
- Text Editor → General → “Show selection matched”
- Text Editor → Visual Basic → Advanced → “Highlight related keywords under cursor”
Turn Off Automatic Highlighting of Matching Words in Visual Studio 2022
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Anonymous
I am trying to figure out how to turn off the Automatic Highlighting of Matching words or variables in the Visual Studio 2022 Text editors. For Example, if my cursor is on Sub or Function, all words in the current file with Sub or Function are automatically highlighted. I find this very distracting. How do I turn this off? It doesn't matter what type of file I have open. aspx, aspx.vb, config files. It is the same in every one.
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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,441 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff2023-12-22T05:45:08.6166667+00:00 Hi @Anonymous ,
You need to uncheck both options which Viorel mentioned.
"Show selection matches" and "Highlight related keywords under cursor"
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Viorel 122.6K Reputation points2023-12-21T20:40:20.89+00:00 -
Anonymous
2023-12-21T21:06:15.8233333+00:00 I have these turned off. It still highlights all occurrences to the word under the cursor.
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Anonymous
2023-12-21T21:06:46.97+00:00 Here are my settings.
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Anonymous
2023-12-21T21:08:21.19+00:00 See attached image.
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Viorel 122.6K Reputation points
2023-12-21T21:18:42.5333333+00:00 Maybe you did not uncheck the “Show selection matches” checkbox.
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