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Axis.Format Property

Returns or sets the format for the automatically updated date and time. Read/write.

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

Syntax

'Declaration
ReadOnly Property Format As ChartFormat
    Get
'Usage
Dim instance As Axis
Dim value As ChartFormat

value = instance.Format
ChartFormat Format { get; }

Property Value

Type: Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.ChartFormat
PpDateTimeFormat

Remarks

The Format property applies only to HeaderFooter objects that represent a date and time (returned from the HeadersFooters collection by the DateAndTime property).

Make sure that the date and time are set to be updated automatically (not displayed as fixed text) by setting the UseFormat property to True.

The Format property value can be one of these PpDateTimeFormat constants.

ppDateTimeddddMMMMddyyyy

ppDateTimedMMMMyyyy

ppDateTimedMMMyy

ppDateTimeFormatMixed

ppDateTimeHmm

ppDateTimehmmAMPM

ppDateTimeHmmss

ppDateTimehmmssAMPM

ppDateTimeMdyy

ppDateTimeMMddyyHmm

ppDateTimeMMddyyhmmAMPM

ppDateTimeMMMMdyyyy

ppDateTimeMMMMyy

ppDateTimeMMyy

Examples

This example sets the date and time for the slide master of the active presentation to be updated automatically and then it sets the date and time format to show hours, minutes, and seconds.

Set myPres = Application.ActivePresentation

With myPres.SlideMaster.HeadersFooters.DateAndTime

    .UseFormat = True

    .Format= ppDateTimeHmmss

End With

See Also

Reference

Axis Interface

Axis Members

Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint Namespace