DocumentBase.Shapes Property
Gets a Shapes collection that represents all the Shape objects in the document.s
Namespace: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word
Assembly: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.v4.0.Utilities (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Word.v4.0.Utilities.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
Public ReadOnly Property Shapes As Shapes
public Shapes Shapes { get; }
Property Value
Type: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Shapes
A Shapes collection that represents all the Shape objects in the document.
Remarks
This collection can contain drawings, shapes, pictures, OLE objects, ActiveX controls, text objects, and callouts.
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.
Examples
The following code example adds a shape to the upper left-hand corner of the document. To use this example, run it from the ThisDocument class in a document-level project.
Private Sub DocumentShapes()
Me.Shapes.AddTextbox(Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTextOrientation. _
msoTextOrientationVertical, 10, 10, 50, 50)
End Sub
private void DocumentShapes()
{
this.Shapes.AddTextbox(Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoTextOrientation.msoTextOrientationVertical,
10, 10, 50, 50, ref missing);
}
.NET Framework Security
- Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.