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Left Property
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Left property as it applies to the Application, DocumentWindow, Shape, ShapeRange, and SlideShowWindow objects.

Application, DocumentWindow and SlideShowWindow objects: Returns or sets a Single that represents the distance in points from the left edge of the document, application, and slide show windows to the left edge of the application window's client area. Setting this property to a very large positive or negative value may position the window completely off the desktop. Read/write.

Shape object: Returns or sets a Single 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.

ShapeRange object: Returns or sets a Single that represents the distance in points from the left edge of the leftmost shape in the shape range to the left edge of the slide. Read/write.

expression.Left

expression   Required. An expression that returns one of the above objects.

Left property as it applies to the Comment object.

Returns a Single that represents the distance in points from the left edge of the comment to the left edge of the slide. Read-only.

expression.Left

expression   Required. An expression that returns a Comment object.

Example

As it applies to the DocumentWindows object.

This example arranges windows one and two horizontally; in other words, each window occupies half the available vertical space and all the available horizontal space in the application window's client area. For this example to work, there must be only two document windows open.

  Windows.Arrange ppArrangeTiled
sngHeight = Windows(1).Height                     ' available height
sngWidth = Windows(1).Width + Windows(2).Width    ' available width
With Windows(1)
    .Width = sngWidth
    .Height = sngHeight / 2
    .Left = 0
End With
With Windows(2)
    .Width = sngWidth
    .Height = sngHeight / 2
    .Top = sngHeight / 2
    .Left = 0
End With