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3. Click the check box to turn off the scroll bars. Also be sure the check
box for Display Screen Menu is not selected. Don’t click the OK but-
ton yet.
Another display setting that you might want to change at this point controls
the color of the cursor and the drawing area background. The illustrations in
this book show a white background and black crosshair cursor, but you’re proba-
bly seeing the AutoCAD default, which features a black background and a white
crosshair cursor. If you want to change the colors, follow these steps:
1. In the Window Elements area of the Display tab, click the Colors but-
ton to open the Drawing Window Colors dialog box (see Figure 1.8).
In the upper-left corner of the dialog box, in the Context list box, 2D
Model Space should be selected. If it’s not, select it.
FIGURE 1.8: The Drawing Window Colors dialog box
2. Move to the Color drop-down list, which is in the upper-right corner.
If your drawing area background is currently white, a square followed
by the word White is displayed. Open the Color drop-down list, and
select Black (or the background color you want). The drawing area
will now be that color, and the cursor color will change to white, as
shown in the Preview window below.
3. Click the Apply & Close button to close the Drawing Window Colors
dialog box. The background and cursor colors change.
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