That you have to upgrade to R2014b doesn’t mean that you have to uninstall all previous versions. I have R2014a as well as R2014b installed (on my own license, not a university license), and use ‘a’ for its extremely useful graphics capabilities that are compromised in ‘b’.
You cannot access the graphics properties in ‘b’ as you did in ‘a’ because the no longer exist in ‘b’, so you also cannot revert to them. You can specify the colormap to match that in ‘a’, or specify our own graphics defaults (font, etc.) otherwise.
You can also have both R2013b and R2014b open at the same time, at least on Windows machines. I frequently do this with R2014a and R2014b to use the myriad features in the previous graphics version. They don’t share the same workspace, so if you need to transfer data between them, use .mat files.
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