HeaderFooter.Shapes property (Word)
Returns a Shapes collection that represents all the Shape objects in a header or footer. Read-only.
Syntax
expression.Shapes
expression A variable that represents a 'HeaderFooter' object.
Remarks
This collection can contain drawings, shapes, pictures, OLE objects, ActiveX controls, text objects, and callouts. For information about returning a single member of a collection, see Returning an object from a collection.
The Shapes property, when applied to a document, returns all the Shape objects in the main story of the document, excluding the headers and footers. When applied to a HeaderFooter object, the Shapes property returns all the Shape objects found in all the headers and footers in the document.
Example
This example displays a count of all the shapes in the primary header and footer of the first section of the active document.
MsgBox ActiveDocument.Sections(1). _
Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Shapes.Count
See also
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