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Display 16 Shades of Gray On A Monochrome Mon
DocumentID: 600674
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:28:29 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer has a monochrome monitor with a VGA card and would like her screen to display 16 shades of gray. She was able to get this display with the 03/30/90 release of WordPerfect 5.1. However, after updating to the 06/29/90 release, when she enters WP 5.1, the screen displays as a monochrome monitor. When she presses Shift-F1, 2 (Display), the Graphics Screen Type says IBM VGA 640x480 16 color. The first time she presses 1 for Color/Fonts/Attributes, she gets the screen with blink and bold as if it were a monochrome monitor. If she presses F7 and then goes back into Color/Fonts/Attributes, she has the correct selections for a VGA card and her 16 shades of gray. Solutions: This customer was able to use MODE CO80 at DOS to get her 16 shades of gray. The IBM model 50 computers have a built-in VGA graphics card that can be set to shades of gray or straight monochrome text. To get shades of gray, the customer must type MODE CO80 at DOS. To get straight monochrome, the customer needs to type MODE MONO at DOS.

Another customer accomplished this by using the SETMODE utility that comes with the card and by placing the command SETMODE COLOR in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

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