Font.Scaling property (Publisher)

Returns or sets a Variant value used to scale the width of the characters in the text range as a percentage of the current font size. Read/write.

Syntax

expression.Scaling

expression A variable that represents a Font object.

Return value

Variant

Remarks

Valid range is 0.1 to 600.0, where the number represents the percentage of the current font size. Indeterminate values are returned as -2.

Example

This example scales the width of the text in the second story by 200%. For this example to work, a second story with text must exist in the active document.

Sub ScaleUp() 
 
 Application.ActiveDocument.Stories(2).TextRange.Font.Scaling = 200 
 
End Sub

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