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TextEffectFormat.Tracking Property

Returns or sets the ratio of the horizontal space allotted to each character in the specified WordArt to the width of the character. Read/write.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint
Assembly:  Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint (in Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Property Tracking As Single
    Get
    Set
'Usage
Dim instance As TextEffectFormat
Dim value As Single

value = instance.Tracking

instance.Tracking = value
float Tracking { get; set; }

Property Value

Type: System.Single

Remarks

The Tracking property value can be from 0 (zero) through 5. (Large values for this property specify ample space between characters; values less than 1 can produce character overlap.)

The following table gives the values of the Tracking property that correspond to the settings available in the user interface:

User interface setting

Equivalent Tracking property value

Very Tight

0.8

Tight

0.9

Normal

1.0

Loose

1.2

Very Loose

1.5

See Also

Reference

TextEffectFormat Interface

TextEffectFormat Members

Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint Namespace