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Document.Shapes Property

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Returns a Shapes collection that represents all the Shape objects in the specified document. Read-only.

Syntax

expression.Shapes

expression   A variable that represents a Document object.

Remarks

This collection can contain drawings, shapes, pictures, OLE objects, ActiveX controls, text objects, and callouts. For information about returning a single member of a collection, see Returning an Object from a Collection.

The Shapes property, when applied to a document, returns all the Shape objects in the main story of the document, excluding the headers and footers.

Example

This example creates a new document, adds a rectangle to it that's 100 points wide and 50 points high, and sets the upper-left corner of the rectangle to be 5 points from the left edge and 25 points from the upper-left corner of the page.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Set myDoc = Documents.Add
myDoc.Shapes.AddShape msoShapeRectangle, 5, 25, 100, 50

This example sets the fill texture for all the shapes in the active document.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  For each s in ActiveDocument.Shapes
    s.Fill.PresetTextured msoTextureOak
Next s

This example adds a shadow to the first shape in the active document.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Set myShape = ActiveDocument.Shapes(1)
myShape.Shadow.Type = msoShadow6

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