Visual Studio Does Not Bold Text

Hassan 1 Reputation point
2022-07-30T05:13:00.137+00:00

I am pretty sure this should be the easiest and most vital bug for the development team to fix! The "Bold" check box in Options -> Environment -> Fonts and Colors does NOT work! It is ineffective. Why can't we bold text anymore?
This issue has been brought up since 2008:

2008 Issue
2017 Issue
2019 Issue

Maybe at least let us know about a work around?

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  1. Tianyu Sun-MSFT 27,266 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2022-08-01T02:58:39.003+00:00

    Hello @Hassan ,

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

    You may need to select the corresponding Display items and set it/them to Bold.

    I tested on my side to check Bold option in Display items for Plain Text, as you can see, the following screenshot, the Plain Text in a normal .txt file displays correctly(note: this Plain Text item only works for Plain Text, not C#, VB… codes).

    226534-image.png

    Best Regards,
    Tianyu

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