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TextFrame.Overflowing property (Publisher)

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Indicates whether the text frame contains more text than can fit into the text frame. Read-only.

Syntax

expression.Overflowing

expression A variable that represents a TextFrame object.

Return value

MsoTriState

Remarks

The Overflowing property value can be one of the MsoTriState constants declared in the Microsoft Office type library.

Example

This example increases the height of the selected text frame if it contains overflowing text.

Sub IncreaseTextBoxHeight() 
 With Selection.ShapeRange.TextFrame 
 If .Overflowing = msoTrue Then 
 Do 
 .Parent.Height = .Parent.Height + 36 
 Loop Until .Overflowing = msoFalse 
 End If 
 End With 
End Sub

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