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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / April 2007PowerPoint VBA and WordArt
I need to use VBA to add a WordArt shape and I want the WordArt shape to always be centered horizontally but be in a specific location vertically. What is the calculation or means to figure this out based on the number of characters in the text that will be displayed in the WordArt shape? Thanks!!! > I need to use VBA to add a WordArt shape and I want the WordArt shape to > always be centered horizontally but be in a specific location vertically. > What is the calculation or means to figure this out based on the number of > characters in the text that will be displayed in the WordArt shape? I don't think that'll work. Most fonts are proportional, meaning that e.g a "w" is considerably wider than an "i". You'd need the width information for each character in the font and that's just the beginning of the complications. Different WordArt shapes may distort the text, which'd throw your calculations off, even if you did have all the width information. Then there's kerning ... But if you're adding word via code, you can get a reference to the shape and easily find out its height and width properties. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Good morning Steve, Makes sense..... Okay, let me work through this..... I could still have my wordart place holders already setup in the slide. Then, part of my coding of updating those place holders I would add new wordart with the updated with "new" text and capture the settings....correct? If so, what's a good way of capturing that information? Anytime that you add a new wordart item does it always center on the slide vertically and horizontally? Thanks!! bl > > I need to use VBA to add a WordArt shape and I want the WordArt shape to > > always be centered horizontally but be in a specific location vertically. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ > Good morning Steve, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > wordart with the updated with "new" text and capture the settings....correct? > If so, what's a good way of capturing that information? Quote the code you use to add the word art and we'll go from there with specific changes that suit the method you're using. > Anytime that you add a new wordart item does it always center on the slide > vertically and horizontally? It seems to but I use it so seldom that if I were you, I wouldn't act on my advice. <g> Beside, you mentioned putting it placeholders ... if you do that, it'll appear wherever the placeholder is. > Thanks!! > bl [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ What Steve said and ... If you are working in Normal/Edit view, you can use something like this to add the WordArt and then align it center. The msoTrue parameter in the Align method indicates that the alignment will be relative to a slide. ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange.Shapes.AddTextEffect _ (msoTextEffect10, "Testing 1 2 3", "Arial Black", 36#, _ msoFalse, msoFalse, 5, 5).Select ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange.Align msoAlignCenters, msoTrue --David  SignatureDavid M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > I need to use VBA to add a WordArt shape and I want the WordArt shape > to always be centered horizontally but be in a specific location > vertically. What is the calculation or means to figure this out based > on the number of characters in the text that will be displayed in the > WordArt shape? Thanks!!! Hello David... To give a little more information..... all my placeholders are rotated 90 degrees. Why? I am using the new Dell flat wide screen monitors that rotate but my video card does not support the rotation. Thus, I having to create a slide that is 90 degrees. Currently I am using text boxes but I can't format the text like need to do that Word Art offers. Is there a better way? Thanks! bl > What Steve said and ... > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > on the number of characters in the text that will be displayed in the > > WordArt shape? Thanks!!! I'm not sure I have anything to offer you. Perhaps, someone else has some ideas. --David SignatureDavid M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ > Hello David... > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> > this out based on the number of characters in the text that will be >> > displayed in the WordArt shape? Thanks!!! You may use a regular text for this, if it's in an object. An Example: This example adds an oval containing text to slide one in the active presentation and rotates the oval and the text 45 degrees. The parent object for the text frame is the Shape object that contains the text. Set myShapes = ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes With myShapes.AddShape(Type:=msoShapeOval, Left:=50, _ Top:=50, Width:=300, Height:=150).TextFrame .TextRange.Text = "Test text" .Parent.Rotation = 45 End With Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress www.playsforcertain.com > Hello David... > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] >> > on the number of characters in the text that will be displayed in the >> > WordArt shape? Thanks!!! Thanks Austin, That is currently what I am doing now. I kinda want my cake and eat too.... Meaning, I want and like the functionality of a text box but want to format my fonts like the wordart. Thus, the text boxes span the width of the slide and I have my text centered inside. Of course with the good ol' wordart it wants to fill the entire area with my text making look distorted and not consistant. With that being said...... would you think it would be possible to have the wordart placeholders filled with spaces and then when the code runs it would determine the length of the text and add spaces to left and right to keep the text a consistant size and centered? Thanks for listening! bl > You may use a regular text for this, if it's in an object. An Example: > [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > >> > on the number of characters in the text that will be displayed in the > >> > WordArt shape? Thanks!!!
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