"Wall, Steven" <steve.wall@PIONEER.COM> wrote in message news:C71CB7425639D311A7A40008C7286AB002F35CBB@carina.phibred.com... > Mark, > > Thanks. I had actually tried 'color text cyan', but thought it didn't work > because the existing text > in my NOTEPAD window didn't change after the command. Turns out it was > working all the time. > I just needed to type some new text to see it. > > Live and learn. > > sjw > > -----Original Message----- > From: Terjeson, Mark [mailto:TerjeMW@dshs.wa.gov] > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:39 PM > To: Wall, Steven; SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: RE: Color in the NOTEPAD window > > > Hi Steve, > > > dm 'notepad; > color banner white; > color command white; > color message white; > color mark white reverse;'; > dm 'notepad; > color text cyan; > color nums white; > color background black; > wsave; > end'; > > > Hope this is helpful, > Mark Terjeson > Washington State Department of Social and Health Services > Division of Research and Data Analysis (RDA) > mailto:terjemw@dshs.wa.gov > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wall, Steven [mailto:steve.wall@PIONEER.COM] > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 1:21 PM > To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: Color in the NOTEPAD window > > > SAS-Lers: > > Such a simple thing, but I'm tired of dredging through on-line doc and > finding nothing. > > If I want to change the background color in the NOTEPAD window, on the > Command Line I type: > > color background black > > but what is the window element name that corresponds to the foreground in > NOTEPAD? > > color ????????? cyan > > Thanks very much. > > sjw