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Slide.Layout Property

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PowerPoint Developer Reference

Returns or sets a PpSlideLayout constant that represents the slide layout. Read/write.

Syntax

expression.Layout

expression   A variable that represents a Slide object.

Remarks

The value of the Layout property can be one of these PpSlideLayout constants.

ppLayoutBlank
ppLayoutChart
ppLayoutChartAndText
ppLayoutClipartAndText
ppLayoutClipArtAndVerticalText
ppLayoutFourObjects
ppLayoutLargeObject
ppLayoutMediaClipAndText
ppLayoutMixed
ppLayoutObject
ppLayoutObjectAndText
ppLayoutObjectOverText
ppLayoutOrgchart
ppLayoutTable
ppLayoutText
ppLayoutTextAndChart
ppLayoutTextAndClipart
ppLayoutTextAndMediaClip
ppLayoutTextAndObject
ppLayoutTextAndTwoObjects
ppLayoutTextOverObject
ppLayoutTitle
ppLayoutTitleOnly
ppLayoutTwoColumnText
ppLayoutTwoObjectsAndText
ppLayoutTwoObjectsOverText
ppLayoutVerticalText
ppLayoutVerticalTitleAndText
ppLayoutVerticalTitleAndTextOverChart

Example

This example changes the layout of slide one in the active presentation to include a title and subtitle if it initially has only a title.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  With ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
    If .Layout = ppLayoutTitleOnly Then
        .Layout = ppLayoutTitle
    End If
End With

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