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Represents an object in the drawing layer, such as an AutoShape, freeform, OLE object, or picture.
The Shape type exposes the following members.
Properties
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ActionSettings | Returns an ActionSettings object that contains information about what action occurs when the user clicks or moves the mouse over the specified shape or text range during a slide show. Read-only. |
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Adjustments | Returns an Adjustments object that contains adjustment values for all the adjustments in the specified shape. Applies to any Shape object that represents an AutoShape, WordArt, or a connector. Read-only. |
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AlternativeText | Returns or sets the alternative text associated with a shape in a Web presentation. Read/write. |
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AnimationSettings | Returns an AnimationSettings object that represents all the special effects that you can apply to the animation of the specified shape. Read-only. |
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Application | Returns an Application object that represents the creator of the specified object. |
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AutoShapeType | Returns or sets the shape type for the specified Shape object, which must represent an AutoShape other than a line, freeform drawing, or connector. Read/write. |
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BackgroundStyle | Sets or returns the background style of the specified object. Read/write. |
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BlackWhiteMode | Returns or sets a value that indicates how the specified shape appears when the presentation is viewed in black-and-white mode. Read/write. |
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Callout | Returns a CalloutFormat object that contains callout formatting properties for the specified shape. Applies to Shape or ShapeRange objects that represent line callouts. Read-only. |
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CanvasItems | Reserved for internal use. |
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Chart | Returns a Chart object of the current Shape object. Read-only. |
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Child | msoTrue if the shape is a child shape or if all shapes in a shape range are child shapes of the same parent. Read-only. |
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ConnectionSiteCount | Returns the number of connection sites on the specified shape. Read-only. |
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Connector | Determines whether the specified shape is a connector. Read-only. |
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ConnectorFormat | Returns a ConnectorFormat object that contains connector formatting properties. Applies to Shape or ShapeRange objects that represent connectors. Read-only. |
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Creator | Returns a 64-bit signed integer that represents the four-character creator code for the application in which the specified object was created. For example, if the object was created in Microsoft PowerPoint, this property returns the hexadecimal number 50575054. Read-only. |
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CustomerData | Returns a CustomerData object. Read-only. |
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Diagram | Reserved for internal use. |
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DiagramNode | Reserved for internal use. |
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Fill | Returns a FillFormat object that contains fill formatting properties for the specified shape. Read-only. |
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Glow | Returns the glow format for the specified shape. Read-only. |
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GroupItems | Returns a GroupShapes object that represents the individual shapes in the specified group. Use the Item[Object] method of the GroupShapes object to return a single shape from the group. Read-only. |
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HasChart | Returns whether the shape represented by the specified object contains a chart. Read-only. |
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HasDiagram | Reserved for internal use. |
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HasDiagramNode | Reserved for internal use. |
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HasSmartArt | Returns true if the current Shape object contains a SmartArt diagram. Read-only. |
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HasTable | Returns whether the specified shape is a table. Read-only. |
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HasTextFrame | Returns whether the specified shape has a text frame. Read-only. |
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Height | Returns or sets the height of the specified object, in points. Read/write. |
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HorizontalFlip | Returns whether the specified shape is flipped around the horizontal axis. Read-only. |
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Id | Returns a 64-bit signed integer that identifies the shape or range of shapes. Read-only. |
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Left | Returns or sets a single-precision floating-point number that represents the distance in points from the left edge of the shape's bounding box to the left edge of the slide. Read/write. |
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Line | Returns a LineFormat object that contains line formatting properties for the specified shape. (For a line, the LineFormat object represents the line itself; for a shape with a border, the LineFormat object represents the border.) Read-only. |
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LinkFormat | Returns a LinkFormat object that contains the properties that are unique to linked OLE objects. Read-only. |
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LockAspectRatio | Determines whether the specified shape retains its original proportions when you resize it. Read/write. |
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MediaFormat | Allows access to the new audio or video object. Read-only. |
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MediaType | Returns the OLE media type. Read-only. |
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Name | When a shape is created, Microsoft PowerPoint automatically assigns it a name in the form ShapeType Number, where ShapeType identifies the type of shape or AutoShape, and Number is an integer that is unique within the collection of shapes on the slide. For example, the automatically generated names of the shapes on a slide could be Placeholder 1, Oval 2, and Rectangle 3. To avoid conflict with automatically assigned names, do not use the form ShapeType Number for user-defined names, where ShapeType is a value that is used for automatically generated names, and Number is any positive integer. A shape range must contain exactly one shape. Read/write. |
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Nodes | Returns a ShapeNodes collection that represents the geometric description of the specified shape. Applies to Shape objects that represent freeform drawings. |
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OLEFormat | Returns an OLEFormat object that contains OLE formatting properties for the specified shape. Applies to Shape or ShapeRange objects that represent OLE objects. Read-only. |
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Parent | Returns the parent object for the specified object. |
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ParentGroup | Returns a Shape object that represents the common parent shape of a child shape or a range of child shapes. |
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PictureFormat | Returns a PictureFormat object that contains picture formatting properties for the specified shape. Read-only. |
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PlaceholderFormat | Returns a PlaceholderFormat object that contains the properties that are unique to placeholders. Read-only. |
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Reflection | Returns the reflection format for the specified shape. Read-only. |
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Rotation | Returns or sets the number of degrees the specified shape is rotated around the z-axis. Read/write. |
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RTF | Reserved for internal use. |
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Script | Reserved for internal use. |
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Shadow | Returns a ShadowFormat object that contains shadow formatting properties for the specified shape. Read-only. |
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ShapeStyle | Sets or returns the shape style index for the specified object. Read/write. |
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SmartArt | Returns the SmartArt diagram of the Shape object. Read-only. |
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SoftEdge | Returns the soft edge format for the specified shape. Read-only. |
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SoundFormat | Reserved for internal use. |
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Table | Returns a Table object that represents a table in a shape or in a shape range. Read-only. |
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Tags | Returns a Tags object that represents the tags for the specified object. Read-only. |
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TextEffect | Returns a TextEffectFormat object that contains text-effect formatting properties for the specified shape. Read-only. |
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TextFrame | Returns a TextFrame object that contains the alignment and anchoring properties for the specified shape or master text style. |
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TextFrame2 | Returns the TextFrame2 object that is associated with the specified Shape object that contains the alignment and anchoring properties for the specified shape. Read-only. |
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ThreeD | Returns a ThreeDFormat object that contains 3-D – effect formatting properties for the specified shape. Read-only. |
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Title | Returns a Shape object that represents the slide title. Read-only. |
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Top | Returns or sets a single-precision floating-point number that represents the distance from the top edge of the shape's bounding box to the top edge of the document. Read/write. |
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Type | Represents the type of shape or shapes in a range of shapes. Read-only. |
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VerticalFlip | Determines whether the specified shape is flipped around the vertical axis. Read-only. |
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Vertices | Returns the coordinates of the specified freeform drawing's vertices (and control points for Bézier curves) as a series of coordinate pairs. Read-only. |
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Visible | Returns or sets the visibility of the specified object or the formatting applied to the specified object. Read/write. |
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Width | Returns or sets the width of the specified object, in points. Read/write. |
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ZOrderPosition | Returns the position of the specified shape in the z-order. Read-only. |
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Methods
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Apply | Applies to the specified shape formatting that's been copied by using the PickUp() method. |
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ApplyAnimation | Applies the last picked up animation to the Shape object. |
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CanvasCropBottom | Reserved for internal use. |
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CanvasCropLeft | Reserved for internal use. |
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CanvasCropRight | Reserved for internal use. |
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CanvasCropTop | Reserved for internal use. |
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ConvertTextToSmartArt | Converts text in a Shape object to a SmartArt diagram. |
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Copy | Copies the specified object to the Clipboard. |
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Cut | Deletes the specified object and places it on the Clipboard. |
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Delete | Deletes the specified Shape object. |
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Duplicate | Creates a duplicate of the specified Shape object, adds the new shape to the Shapes collection, and then returns a new ShapeRange object. The duplicated objects are placed at the end of the Shapes collection. |
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Export | Reserved for internal use. |
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Flip | Flips the specified shape around its horizontal or vertical axis. |
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IncrementLeft | Moves the specified shape horizontally by the specified number of points. |
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IncrementRotation | Changes the rotation of the specified shape around the z-axis by the specified number of degrees. Use the Rotation property to set the absolute rotation of the shape. |
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IncrementTop | Moves the specified shape vertically by the specified number of points. |
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PickUp | Copies the formatting of the specified shape. Use the Apply() method to apply the copied formatting to another shape. |
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PickupAnimation | Picks up all animation from the Shape object. |
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RerouteConnections | Reroutes connectors so that they take the shortest possible path between the shapes they connect. To do this, the RerouteConnections() method may detach the ends of a connector and reattach them to different connecting sites on the connected shapes. |
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ScaleHeight | Scales the height of the shape by a specified factor. |
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ScaleWidth | Scales the width of the shape by a specified factor. For pictures and OLE objects, you can indicate whether you want to scale the shape relative to the original size or relative to the current size. Shapes other than pictures and OLE objects are always scaled relative to their current width. |
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Select | Selects the specified object. |
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SetShapesDefaultProperties | Applies the formatting for the specified shape to the default shape. Shapes that are created after this method has been used will have this formatting applied to them by default. |
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Ungroup | Ungroups any grouped shapes in the specified shape or range of shapes. Disassembles pictures and OLE objects within the specified shape or range of shapes. Returns the ungrouped shapes as a single ShapeRange object. |
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UpgradeMedia | Converts a legacy media object to an updated media object. |
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ZOrder | Moves the specified shape in front of or behind other shapes in the collection (that is, changes the shape's position in the z-order). |
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