PowerPoint: Change the text in a text type shape via automation

[Dale Fye]

Office 2003

What is the appropriate property of a textbox type shape to change the text
that appears in the shape, programmatically?

I'm creating a customized charting function, and want to create a legend on
the fly, but need to know how to change the text inside the textbox.

Dale

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Office 2003

What is the appropriate property of a textbox type shape to change the text
that appears in the shape, programmatically?

I'm creating a customized charting function, and want to create a legend on
the fly, but need to know how to change the text inside the textbox.

Assuming you have a reference to the shape in the variable oSh:

With oSh.TextFrame.TextRange
.Text = "At your service, Master"
End With

If you're working with any old shape, it's good practice to surround all this
with tests to make sure the shape has a text frame ( if oSh.HasTextFrame ) and
the text frame has text ( if oSh.TextFrame.HasText ) because some shapes
cannot have textframes.

In your case, since you can limit yourself to creating shapes that are known to
work, I don't see any need for the belt, braces, rope and hand on beltbuckle.

 

[Dale Fye]

Thanks, Steve.
Got it working great.

Assuming you have a reference to the shape in the variable oSh:

With oSh.TextFrame.TextRange
.Text = "At your service, Master"
End With

If you're working with any old shape, it's good practice to surround all
this
with tests to make sure the shape has a text frame ( if oSh.HasTextFrame )
and
the text frame has text ( if oSh.TextFrame.HasText ) because some shapes
cannot have textframes.

In your case, since you can limit yourself to creating shapes that are
known to
work, I don't see any need for the belt, braces, rope and hand on
beltbuckle.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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