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vstopowerpointindentationpowerpoint-2013
buks
buks

Reputation: 435

indentation in PowerPoint 2013

I would like to change text indentation in some PowerPoint object.

Paragraph -> Indentation -> before text

Paragraph -> Indentation -> Special -> Hanging (how to change it on FirstLine or None?) -> By

From that what I've found in previous versions it could be done with

paragraph.ParagraphFormat.FirstLineIndent = x;

paragraph.ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent = x;

but now there is no such properties available.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 377

Answers (1)

BrainSlugs83
BrainSlugs83

Reputation: 6411

Okay, I figured it out. Here's the trick: the LeftIndent and FirstLineIndent properties only exist on the Microsoft.Office.Core.ParagraphFormat2 object. They do not exist on the regular Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.ParagraphFormat object.

You can still change the format for an entire TextRange though (it doesn't have to be done at the paragraph level as the comments above specify).

The trick is to access your shape's TextFrame2 property, instead of just TextFrame, this will ensure that the classes you get back are TextRange2, which will return a ParagraphFormat2 instead of a regular TextRange and ParagraphFormat.

The following code worked for me:

myShape.TextFrame2.TextRange.ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent = (.13f * 72f); // .13 inches

Upvotes: 1

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