Microsoft KB Archive/29578

Background Color Changes when Entering Word 4.00 Speller

PSS ID Number: Q29578 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

4.00

MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

The background color for Word Version 4.00 Spell may change to a much brighter color than the background color chosen under Window Options Background Color.

The Window Options Background Color field displays a choice of 16 colors (0-15), including black, from the many possible colors available from a graphics card palette. The color numbers are remapped from the actual hardware-defined palette number to a Word defined color number.

There is a mismatch of colors between Spell and Word only with colors whose number is between 9 and 15, the high intensity colors. This is because Word does not remap colors whose hardware-defined number is below 8. Therefore, Word and Spell display the same background color when Window Options Background Color is set to a number from 0 to 8.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Word Version 4.00. This problem was corrected in Word Version 5.00.

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