The key is make sure you have the “Query Designer” toolbar enabled. This should be the case by default. On that toolbar there is an icon shaped like a white square with the word “SQL” with the hint text of “Show SQL Pane”.

I apologize if I’m repeating the instructions above, but the first step is to select whatever table you want to change the value in and choose “Edit Top 200 Rows”. Then select the “SQL” icon on the “View Designer” toolbar and this will typically display the “SQL Pane” at the top and the “Results Pane” at the bottom. Once you have the “SQL Pane” displayed then you can edit it like any other SQL and select the “!” icon on the “Query Designer” toolbar to execute the new SQL. The end result will be your modified SQL in the “SQL Pane” and the new table rows in the “Results Pane”. The rows in the “Results Pane” are editable and you can select whatever cell you want and edit it. To apply you can navigate to another row or select “X” to close the “SQL Pane”.

I hope this helps. If you still cannot get it to work. Please let me know.
Blake

I can write the SQL query in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio – this selects the row(s) that I want, but this list of selected rows comes up in the “Results” tab where it won’t let me edit the results. I want to run the select query, and modify the fields exactly like you’ve said. The only way it seems I can modify the data in a table is to right click the table and select “Edit top 200 rows”. The only other way would be to run an update query …

Please help – this is most annoying.