Choosing font or fill colour in Lotus 123V5 in Windows 7 1

Reply to FrenchPeter re: color palette:

I had the same problem, and just found the solution (again). I am using Lotus 1-2-3 version 5 (and love it) and just switched from Windows XP to Windows 7, 32 Bit. (BTW, I found that it MUST be 32 bit, not 64, for version 5.)

An earlier posting said to make a revision to color capability in Windows, to reduce something to do with color. In Windows 7 I went to Control Panel, System, Advanced system settings, System Properties, Performance, Settings. I changed the option from "Let Windows choose what's best . ." to "Adjust for best performance". That worked for me. The change removed a lot of different things that Windows was choosing to do for me, and I don't know which of those were the culprit. You could experiment, or just do what I did.

Best of luck.

Bill

Hi Bill,

Brilliant, thank you. As you found, it has also got rid of some annoying aspects of Microsoft's ideas about how my computer should run. When I get a chance, I will play around with the 'windows decide' range of settings and try to tie down exactly which one solves the Lotus 5 (it is the best, isn't it?) and what the others give me that I want and don't want.

Thanks again

Peter

It is interesting to be using 20 year old software.

Whenever I move to new hardware, I have to re-load 1-2-3 version 5 (from CD or flash drive now), and do the Y2K patch, and the long-year display tweak.

I have 2 versions of Excel available, and also version 9 of Lotus. But 1-2-3 version 5 is the one that does the job for me.

Bill