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CanvasShapes.AddTextbox Method

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Adds a text box to a drawing canvas. Returns a Shape object that represents the text box.

Syntax

expression.AddTextbox(Orientation, Left, Top, Width, Height)

expression   Required. A variable that represents a CanvasShapes collection.

Parameters

Name Required/Optional Data Type Description
Orientation Required MsoTextOrientation The orientation of the text. Some of the MsoTextOrientation constants may not be available to you, depending on the language support (U.S. English, for example) that you’ve selected or installed.
Left Required Single The position, measured in points, of the left edge of the text box.
Top Required Single The position, measured in points, of the top edge of the text box.
Width Required Single The width, measured in points, of the text box.
Height Required Single The height, measured in points, of the text box.

Example

This example add a textbox to a canvas in a new document.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Sub NewCanvasTextbox()
    Dim docNew As Document
    Dim shpCanvas As Shape

'Create a new document and add a drawing canvas
Set docNew = Documents.Add
Set shpCanvas = docNew.Shapes.AddCanvas _
    (Left:=100, Top:=75, Width:=150, Height:=200)

'Add a text box to the drawing canvas
shpCanvas.CanvasItems.<strong class="bterm">AddTextbox</strong> _
    Orientation:=msoTextOrientationHorizontal, _
    Left:=1, Top:=1, Width:=100, Height:=100



End Sub

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