Terminal Doesn't Use Highlight Colors

 Last reviewed: November 21, 1994
Article ID: Q88504
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows operating system versions 3.0, 3.0a, 3.1, 3.11

When you select text in the Windows Terminal program, the Highlight and HighlightText colors defined in the WIN.INI's [colors] section are not used. Instead Terminal inverts the existing colors.

For example, if the Terminal screen is white with black text, then the selected (highlighted) text is white on a black background.

KBCategory: kbusage kbtool
KBSubcategory: win30 win31 wincomm
Additional reference words: 3.10 3.00a 3.00 3.11

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Last reviewed: November 21, 1994
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