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Selection Object Members

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Represents the selection in the specified document window. The Selection object is deleted whenever you change slides in an active slide view (the Type property will return ppSelectionNone).

Methods

  Name Description
Bb251475.methods(en-us,office.12).gif Copy Copies the specified object to the Clipboard.
Bb251475.methods(en-us,office.12).gif Cut Deletes the specified object and places it on the Clipboard.
Bb251475.methods(en-us,office.12).gif Delete Deletes the specified object.
Bb251475.methods(en-us,office.12).gif Unselect Cancels the current selection.

Properties

  Name Description
Bb251475.properties(en-us,office.12).gif Application Returns an Application object that represents the creator of the specified object.
Bb251475.properties(en-us,office.12).gif ChildShapeRange Returns a ShapeRange object that represents the child shapes of a selection.
Bb251475.properties(en-us,office.12).gif HasChildShapeRange True if the selection contains child shapes. Read-only Boolean.
Bb251475.properties(en-us,office.12).gif Parent Returns the parent object for the specified object.
Bb251475.properties(en-us,office.12).gif ShapeRange Returns a ShapeRange object that represents all the slide objects that have been selected on the specified slide. This range can contain the drawings, shapes, OLE objects, pictures, text objects, titles, headers, footers, slide number placeholder, and date and time objects on a slide. Read-only.
Bb251475.properties(en-us,office.12).gif SlideRange Returns a SlideRange object that represents a range of selected slides. Read-only.
Bb251475.properties(en-us,office.12).gif TextRange Returns a TextRange object that represents the selected text (Selection object) or the text in the specified text frame (TextFrame object).
Bb251475.properties(en-us,office.12).gif Type Returns a PpSelectionType constant that represents the type of objects in a selection. Read-only.