CropLeft Property Example

This example crops 20 points off the left side of shape three on myDocument. For the example to work, shape three must be either a picture or an OLE object.

Set myDocument = ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
myDocument.Shapes(3).PictureFormat.CropLeft = 20

This example crops the percentage specified by the user off the left side of the selected shape, regardless of whether the shape has been scaled. For the example to work, the selected shape must be either a picture or an OLE object.

percentToCrop = InputBox("What percentage do you " & _
    "want to crop off the left of this picture?")
Set shapeToCrop = ActiveWindow.Selection.ShapeRange(1)
With shapeToCrop.Duplicate
    .ScaleWidth 1, True
    origWidth = .Width
    .Delete
End With
cropPoints = origWidth * percentToCrop / 100
shapeToCrop.PictureFormat.CropLeft = cropPoints