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4. Click the Color drop-down list, and choose a color of your liking from
the list, or choose Select Color to access a larger array of colors.
5. Click Apply & Close, and then OK to save your changes and exit the
Options dialog box.
The Drawing Window Colors dialog box offers several restore options along
its right side. Think of these as an insurance policy that allows you to quickly
return things back to the way they were before any colors were customized:
Restore Current Element Use to restore the default color of a single
interface element as selected in the Interface Element list.
Restore Current Context Use to restore the default colors for each of
the interface elements contained within the selected Context.
Restore All Contexts Use to restore all contexts and all interface ele-
ments to the default colors used by AutoCAD when it was installed.
Restore Classic Colors Earlier releases of AutoCAD employed a solid
black drawing area background, and a slightly different contrast ratio between
several other interface elements. Use this option to restore the default color
scheme used by earlier releases of AutoCAD.
Working in the Command-Line Window
Just below the drawing area is the Command-Line window. This window is sepa-
rate from the drawing area and behaves like a Windows window—that is, you
can drag it to a different place on the screen and resize it, although you probably
shouldn’t do this at first. If you currently have fewer than three lines of text in
the window, you should increase the window’s vertical size. To do so, move the
cursor to the horizontal boundary between the drawing area and the command
window until it changes to an up-and-down arrow broken by two parallel, hori-
zontal lines.
Hold down the left mouse button, drag the cursor up by approximately the
same amount that one or two lines of text would take up, and then release
the mouse button (see Figure1.17). You should see more lines of text, but you
might have to try this a few times to display exactly four lines. A horizontal line
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