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Lotus 123 and windows XP

Anonymous
2010-06-28T19:22:41+00:00

I have Lotus 123 Ver. 5 running with win.XP.  The program works well with the exception of the color formatting of cells and fonts.  The color palate does not appear when style is selected.  Can this be corrected?

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-06-29T12:56:30+00:00

    Lotus 123 is a DOS program and there is no DOS in XP. Your program is running under an emulator and the emulation isn't always perfect. If you don't want to upgrade to a program designed to work on XP/Vista/Windows 7 (and I strongly suggest that you do this since one of these days your computer will die and you may not be able to use DOS programs at all), then you can try virtualization software (MS Virtual PC ,VMware Workstation , or Sun's VirtualBox ) running DOS or Windows 98 in a virtual machine. You would need a copy of DOS or Windows 98 to install in the virtual machine. DOSbox might be useful in this case.

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