PPT: Sample Code to Apply Small Caps Formatting to Selection

• Microsoft PowerPoint 98 Macintosh Edition
• Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows

SUMMARY

This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that formats the lowercase letters in a selection as small capital letters and reduces their size to about eighty percent of their original point size. Small capital letters (small caps) formatting does not affect uppercase letters, punctuation, or nonalphabetic characters.

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Sample Visual Basic Procedure

   Sub SetSmallCaps()

      ' Used to trap errors.
      On Error Resume Next
      Err.Clear

      ' Dimension the variables.
      Dim oTextRange As TextRange
      Dim oWordRange As TextRange
      Dim lNewFontSize As Long
      Dim i As Long

      ' Get reference to the selected text.
      Set oTextRange = ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange

      ' See whether error occurred getting text selection.
      If Err.Number <> 0 Then

         MsgBox "Cannot apply Small Caps to selection. Please select " _
            & "some text and run the macro again.", vbExclamation, _
            "Invalid Selection"

         ' Stop the macro.
         End
      End If

      ' Loop through the words in the selection.
      For i = 1 To oTextRange.Paragraphs.Words.count

         ' Get a reference to the first word in the selection.
         Set oWordRange = oTextRange.Paragraphs.Words(i, 1)

         ' With oWordRange.Paragraphs.Characters(1, 1)
         With oWordRange.Characters(1, 1)

            ' Set the first letter to be upper case.
            .ChangeCase ppCaseUpper

            ' Calculate the new font size.
            lNewFontSize = ((.font.Size) / 1.3)

         End With

         ' Change the remaining characters to the new font size.
         With oWordRange
            .Characters(2, (oWordRange.Length)).font.Size = lNewFontSize
            .Characters(2, (oWordRange.Length)).ChangeCase ppCaseUpper
         End With

      Next i

   End Sub

REFERENCES

For more information about creating Visual Basic for Applications macros, click the Office Assistant in Microsoft PowerPoint, type "how to create a macro," click Search, and then click to view "Create a macro in Visual Basic Editor."

For more information about running Visual Basic for Applications macros, click the Office Assistant in Microsoft PowerPoint, type "how to run a macro," click Search, and then click to view "Run a macro."

NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If the Assistant is not able to answer your query, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q176476
   TITLE     : OFF: Office Assistant Not Answering Visual Basic Questions

   ARTICLE-ID: Q163435
   TITLE     : VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for
               Applications