ShapeRange Members

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Represents a shape range, which is a set of shapes on a document. A shape range can contain as few as a single shape or as many as all the shapes on the document.

The ShapeRange type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	ActionSettings	Returns an ActionSettings object that contains information about what action occurs when the user clicks or moves the mouse over the specified shape or text range during a slide show. Read-only.
	Adjustments	Returns an Adjustments object that contains adjustment values for all the adjustments in the specified shape. Applies to any ShapeRange object that represents an AutoShape, WordArt, or a connector. Read-only.
	AlternativeText	Returns or sets the alternative text associated with a shape in a Web presentation. Read/write.
	AnimationSettings	Returns an AnimationSettings object that represents all the special affects you can apply to the animation of the specified shape. Read-only.
	Application	Returns an Application object that represents the creator of the specified object.
	AutoShapeType	Returns or sets the shape type for the specified ShapeRange object, which must represent an AutoShape other than a line, freeform drawing, or connector. Read/write.
	BackgroundStyle	Sets or returns the background style of the specified object. Read/write.
	BlackWhiteMode	Returns or sets a value that indicates how the specified shape appears when the presentation is viewed in black-and-white mode. Read/write.
	Callout	Returns a CalloutFormatobject that contains callout formatting properties for the specified shape. Applies to Shape or ShapeRange objects that represent line callouts. Read-only.
	CanvasItems	Reserved for internal use.
	Chart	Returns the Chart object of the current ShapeRange object. Read-only.
	Child	msoTrue if the shape is a child shape or if all shapes in a shape range are child shapes of the same parent. Read-only.
	ConnectionSiteCount	Returns the number of connection sites on the specified shape. Read-only.
	Connector	Determines whether the specified shape is a connector. Read-only.
	ConnectorFormat	Returns a ConnectorFormatobject that contains connector formatting properties. Applies to Shape or ShapeRange objects that represent connectors. Read-only.
	Count	Returns the number of objects in the specified collection. Read-only.
	Creator	Returns a 64-bit signed integer that represents the four-character creator code for the application in which the specified object was created. For example, if the object was created in Microsoft PowerPoint, this property returns the hexadecimal number 50575054. Read-only.
	CustomerData	Returns a CustomerData object.
	Diagram	Reserved for internal use.
	DiagramNode	Reserved for internal use.
	Fill	Returns a FillFormat object that contains fill formatting properties for the specified shape. Read-only.
	Glow	Returns the glow format for the specified range of shapes. Read-only.
	GroupItems	Returns a GroupShapes object that represents the individual shapes in the specified group. Use the Item method of the GroupShapes object to return a single shape from the group. Read-only.
	HasChart	Returns whether the shape range represented by the specified object contains a chart. Read-only.
	HasDiagram	Reserved for internal use.
	HasDiagramNode	Reserved for internal use.
	HasSmartArt	Returns true if the current ShapeRange object has a SmartArt diagram. Read-only.
	HasTable	Returns whether the specified shape is a table. Read-only.
	HasTextFrame	Returns whether the specified shape has a text frame. Read-only.
	Height	Returns or sets the height of the specified object, in points. Read/write.
	HorizontalFlip	Returns whether the specified shape is flipped around the horizontal axis. Read-only.
	Id	Returns a 64-bit signed integer that identifies the shape or range of shapes. Read-only.
	Item	Returns a single Shape object from the specified ShapeRange collection.
	Left	Returns or sets the distance in points from the left edge of the leftmost shape in the shape range to the left edge of the slide. Read/write.
	Line	Returns a LineFormat object that contains line formatting properties for the specified shape. (For a line, the LineFormat object represents the line itself; for a shape with a border, the LineFormat object represents the border.) Read-only.
	LinkFormat	Returns a LinkFormat object that contains the properties that are unique to linked OLE objects. Read-only.
	LockAspectRatio	Determines whether the specified shape retains its original proportions when you resize it. Read/write.
	MediaFormat	Returns the current MediaFormat object. Read-only.
	MediaType	Returns the OLE media type. Read-only.
	Name	Returns the name of the Shape object. Read-only.
	Nodes	Returns a ShapeNodes collection that represents the geometric description of the specified shape. Applies to ShapeRange objects that represent freeform drawings.
	OLEFormat	Returns an OLEFormat object that contains OLE formatting properties for the specified shape. Applies to Shape or ShapeRange objects that represent OLE objects. Read-only.
	Parent	Returns the parent object for the specified object.
	ParentGroup	Returns a Shape object that represents the common parent shape of a child shape or a range of child shapes.
	PictureFormat	Returns a PictureFormat object that contains picture formatting properties for the specified shape. Read-only.
	PlaceholderFormat	Returns a PlaceholderFormat object that contains the properties that are unique to placeholders. Read-only.
	Reflection	Returns the reflection format for the specified range of shapes. Read-only.
	Rotation	Returns or sets the number of degrees the specified shape is rotated around the z-axis . Read/write.
	RTF	Reserved for internal use.
	Script	Reserved for internal use.
	Shadow	Returns a ShadowFormat object that contains shadow formatting properties for the specified shapes. Read-only.
	ShapeStyle	Sets or returns the shape style index for the specified object.
	SmartArt	Returns the SmartArt diagram of the ShapeRange object. Read-only.
	SoftEdge	Returns the soft edge format for the specified range of shapes. Read-only.
	SoundFormat	Reserved for internal use.
	Table	Returns a Table object that represents a table in a shape or in a shape range. Read-only.
	Tags	Returns a Tags object that represents the tags for the specified object. Read-only.
	TextEffect	Returns a TextEffectFormat object that contains text-effect formatting properties for the specified shape. Read-only.
	TextFrame	Returns a TextFrame object that contains the alignment and anchoring properties for the specified shape or master text style. Read-only.
	TextFrame2	Returns the TextFrame2 object associated with the specified ShapeRange object that contains the alignment and anchoring properties for the specified shape range. Read-only.
	ThreeD	Returns a ThreeDFormat object that contains 3-D – effect formatting properties for the specified shape. Read-only.
	Title	Returns a Shape object that represents the slide title. Read-only.
	Top	Returns or sets the distance from the top edge of the topmost shape in the shape range to the top edge of the document. Read/write.
	Type	Represents the type of shape or shapes in a range of shapes. Read-only.
	VerticalFlip	Determines whether the specified shape is flipped around the vertical axis. Read-only.
	Vertices	Returns the coordinates of the specified freeform drawing's vertices (and control points for Bézier curves) as a series of coordinate pairs. Read-only.
	Visible	Returns or sets the visibility of the specified object or the formatting applied to the specified object. Read/write.
	Width	Returns or sets the width of the specified object, in points. Read/write.
	ZOrderPosition	Returns the position of the specified shape in the z-order. Read-only.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	_Index	Reserved for internal use.
	Align	Aligns the shapes in the specified range of shapes.
	Apply	Applies to the specified shape range formatting that's been copied by using the PickUp method.
	ApplyAnimation	Applies animation to a ShapeRange object.
	CanvasCropBottom	Reserved for internal use.
	CanvasCropLeft	Reserved for internal use.
	CanvasCropRight	Reserved for internal use.
	CanvasCropTop	Reserved for internal use.
	ConvertTextToSmartArt	Returns the number of objects in the specified collection. Read-only.
	Copy	Copies the specified object to the Clipboard.
	Cut	Deletes the specified object and places it on the Clipboard.
	Delete	Deletes the specified ShapeRange object.
	Distribute	Evenly distributes the shapes in the specified range of shapes. You can specify whether you want to distribute the shapes horizontally or vertically and whether you want to distribute them over the entire slide or just over the space they originally occupy.
	Duplicate	Creates a duplicate of the specified ShapeRange object, adds the range of shapes to the Shapes collection, and then returns the new ShapeRange object. The duplicated objects are placed at the end of the Shapes collection.
	Export	Reserved for internal use.
	Flip	Flips the specified shape range around its horizontal or vertical axis.
	GetEnumerator()	(Inherited from IEnumerable.)
	GetEnumerator()	Returns an enumerator that iterates through a shape range.
	GetPolygonalRepresentation	Reserved for internal use.
	Group	Groups the shapes in the specified range. Returns the grouped shapes as a single Shape object.
	IncrementLeft	Moves the specified shape range horizontally by the specified number of points.
	IncrementRotation	Changes the rotation of the specified shape range around the z-axis  by the specified number of degrees. Use the Rotation property to set the absolute rotation of the shape range.
	IncrementTop	Moves the specified shape range vertically by the specified number of points.
	PickUp	Copies the formatting of the specified shape. Use the Apply method to apply the copied formatting to another shape.
	PickupAnimation	Picks up all animation from the ShapeRange object.
	Regroup	Regroups the group that the specified shape range belonged to previously. Returns the regrouped shapes as a single Shape object.
	RerouteConnections	Reroutes connectors so that they take the shortest possible path between the shapes they connect. To do this, the RerouteConnections() method may detach the ends of a connector and reattach them to different connecting sites on the connected shapes.
	ScaleHeight	Scales the height of the shapes in the range by a specified factor.
	ScaleWidth	Scales the width of the shapes in the range by a specified factor.
	Select	Selects the specified object.
	SetShapesDefaultProperties	Applies the formatting for the specified shape to the DefaultShape. Shapes created after this method has been used will have this formatting applied to them by default.
	Ungroup	Ungroups any grouped shapes in the specified shape or range of shapes. Disassembles pictures and OLE objects within the specified shape or range of shapes. Returns the ungrouped shapes as a single ShapeRange object.
	UpgradeMedia	Upgrades media within the specified ShapeRange object.
	ZOrder	Moves the specified shape range in front of or behind other shapes in the collection (that is, changes the shape range's position in the z-order).

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See Also

Reference

ShapeRange Interface

Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint Namespace