TOAD® Handbook

Using Formatter Plus for PL/SQL

Formatter Plus for PL/SQL, now included with TOAD Standard Edition, provides expert code formatting, syntax checking, reviews, code profiling, and best practice recommendations. However, many TOAD users barely scratch the surface of this tool’s functionality. TOAD users generally locate and utilize the code formatting capabilities offered within TOAD’s PL/SQL Editor as shown in Figure 10.1. With a simple context menu selection, the selected code is consistently and expertly formatted.

Figure 10.1. TOAD PL/SQL Editor—Format Code.

But by merely choosing the last menu option to launch Formatter Plus for PL/SQL instead, ...