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Outlining not working in SSMS 18.x and 19.x
Edit, This problem is also present in SSMS 20.1, Does Microsoft care at all, or are they not capable of fixing this? In SSMS 18.x and 19.x, the outlining feature that allows you to collapse SQL c...
- Sorry for not updating the original text, this issue is also present in SSMS 19, in fact everything newer than SSMS 17 has this problem
Hi MartinxN
This questions was originally asked on 15-09-2021 about 2 years ago. Are you saying that you work on the same issue for 2 years?!?
You probably know what Dog Years means. In general each year for a dog is like 7 years for Human. This questions is more that one Computer years and each computer year is like 10000 years for Human as the tech change each minute. From the time you asked the question SSMS 18.x became obsolete. Therefore, the sirt step you should do, is to install the latest version of SSMS.
Please upgrade to the latest version and confirm if the issue continue. If it was a known bug then it was probably fixed
If the issue continue on the latest version of SSMS then w will dive into it more 
Sorry for not updating the original text, this issue is also present in SSMS 19, in fact everything newer than SSMS 17 has this problem
- I had the same problem for several months and also have been using SQL Prompt. In my case, I remembered that I'd disabled Intellisense, and so I tried toggling that back on. Outlining came back instantly.
- Unfortunately that is not my experience, Intellisense have been turned on from the start and turning it off an on again does not help
