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CalloutFormat.Angle Property

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Returns or sets an MsoCalloutAngleType constant that represents the angle of the callout line. If the callout line contains more than one line segment, this property returns or sets the angle of the segment that is farthest from the callout text box. Read/write.

Syntax

expression.Angle

expression   A variable that represents a CalloutFormat object.

Remarks

If you set the value of this property to anything other than msoCalloutAngleAutomatic, the callout line maintains a fixed angle as you drag the callout.

MsoCalloutAngleType can be one of these MsoCalloutAngleType constants.
msoCalloutAngle30
msoCalloutAngle45
msoCalloutAngle60
msoCalloutAngle90
msoCalloutAngleAutomatic
msoCalloutAngleMixed

Example

This example sets the callout angle to 90 degrees for the first shape on the first page of the active publication. For this example to work, the specified shape must be a callout.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub SetCalloutAngle()
    ActiveDocument.Pages(1).Shapes(1).Callout.Angle = msoCalloutAngle90
End Sub

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