Shapes Property Example

This example adds a rectangle that's 100 points wide and 50 points high, and whose upper-left corner is 5 points from the left edge of slide one in the active presentation and 25 points from the top of the slide.

Set firstSlide = ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
firstSlide.Shapes.AddShape msoShapeRectangle, 5, 25, 100, 50

This example sets the fill texture for shape three on slide one in the active presentation.

Set newRect = ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes(3)
newRect.Fill.PresetTextured msoTextureOak

Assuming that slide one in the active presentation contains a title, both the second and third lines of code in the following example set the title text on slide one in the presentation.

Set firstSl = ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
firstSl.Shapes.Title.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = "Some title text"
firstSl.Shapes(1).TextFrame.TextRange.Text = "Other title text"

Assuming that shape two on slide two in the active presentation contains a text frame, the following example adds a series of paragraphs to the slide. Note that Chr(13) is used to insert paragraph marks within the text.

Set tShape = ActivePresentation.Slides(2).Shapes(2)
tShape.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = "First Item" & Chr(13) & _
    "Second Item" & Chr(13) & "Third Item"

For most slide layouts, the first shapes on the slide are text placeholders, and the following example accomplishes the same task as the preceding example.

Set testShape = ActivePresentation.Slides(2).Shapes.Placeholders(2)
testShape.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = "First Item" & _
    Chr(13) & "Second Item" & Chr(13) & "Third Item"