Language-Specific Properties and Methods (PowerPoint)

The Microsoft Office PowerPoint Visual Basic object model has language-specific keywords for use with Asian and right-to-left languages. The availability of these language-specific keywords depends on the language support you have selected or installed.

Language-Specific Properties and Methods

Properties and methods that are available only in Asian or right-to-left languages are listed in the following table.

Property or Method	Object
AutoRotateNumbers property	Font
FarEastLineBreakLanguage property	Presentation
FarEastLineBreakLevel property	Presentation
FarEastLineBreakControl property	ParagraphFormat
HangingPunctuation property	ParagraphFormat
LayoutDirection property	Presentation
LtrRun method	TextRange
NameAscii property	Font
NameFarEast property	Font
NameOther property	Font
NoLineBreakAfter property	Presentation
NoLineBreakBefore property	Presentation
RtlRun method	TextRange
TableDirection property	Table
TextDirection property	ParagraphFormat

Language-Specific Arguments

Properties and methods that are available in all languages, but that have one or more language-specific arguments, are listed in the following table.

Property or Method	Object
AddLabel method	Shapes
AddTextBox method	Shapes
Orientation property	TextFrame
SaveAs method	Presentation

Note

To enable the language-specific features in Microsoft Office PowerPoint, you must be running a 32-bit version of the Microsoft Windows operating system that has support for that particular language—for example, the Arabic version of Microsoft Windows 95 has right-to-left support.