Use the Display option to set the type of display (color or monochrome), the number of columns of text displayed, and the color or shade you'd like for text, background, and border.

If you're using a color monitor, select Color as the type of display. If you're using a monochrome monitor or a television set, select Monochrome.

Incidentally, if the text displayed on your color monitor is fuzzy or has a color fringe when you use certain applications, try changing the type to Monochrome and see if you get a better picture. If there isn't enough contrast with a monochrome monitor, try setting Type to Color.

The Apple IIGS can display either 40 columns by 24 lines of text or 80 columns by 24 lines. If you choose 40 columns, the characters are twice as wide as the characters you get when you choose 80 columns. The advantage of the 40-column display is that the characters are bigger and easier to read. The advantage of the 80- column display is that you can work with larger documents, and the documents have a line length that more closely resembles typewritten documents.

Television sets and some color monitors don't have good enough resolution to display 80 columns of text clearly, so if you're using a television set or if you're having trouble reading text produced by your color monitor, set the Columns option to 40.

If you're using a monitor, and particularly if you use your Apple IIGS with business applications (like word processing and spreadsheet applications), set the Columns option to 80. Some applications require an 80-column display.

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