Important Notice

The pages on this site contain documentation for very old MS-DOS software, purely for historical purposes. If you're looking for up-to-date documentation, particularly for programming, you should not rely on the information found here, as it will be woefully out of date.

Highlight
 
A reverse video area on the screen that
indicates command choices, text selections, and
active command fields. For example, in Word's
normal colors, command names appear on the menus
in black text on a gray background; when a
command is selected, the text is "highlighted" by
appearing gray on a black background.