Language-Specific Properties and Methods

Language-Specific Properties and Methods

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The Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Visual Basic object model has new language-specific keywords for use with Asian and right-to-left languages. The availability of these language-specific keywords depends on the language support you have selected or installed. For more information about language-specific features, see Language-specific information.

Language-Specific Properties and Methods

Properties and methods that are available only in Asian or right-to-left languages are listed in the following table.

Property or Method Object
AutoRotateNumbers property Font
FarEastLineBreakLanguage property Presentation
FarEastLineBreakLevel property Presentation
FarEastLineBreakControl property ParagraphFormat
HangingPunctuation property ParagraphFormat
LayoutDirection property Presentation
LtrRun method TextRange
NameAscii property Font
NameFarEast property Font
NameOther property Font
NoLineBreakAfter property Presentation
NoLineBreakBefore property Presentation
RtlRun method TextRange
TableDirection property Table
TextDirection property ParagraphFormat

Language-Specific Arguments

Properties and methods that are available in all languages, but that have one or more language-specific arguments, are listed in the following table.

Property or Method Object
AddLabel method Shapes
AddTextBox method Shapes
Orientation property TextFrame
SaveAs method Presentation

Note   In order to enable the language-specific features in Microsoft PowerPoint, you must be running a 32-bit version of the Microsoft Windows operating system that has support for that particular language — for example, the Arabic version of Windows 95 has right-to-left support. Learn about requirements for right-to-left or Asian languages.