PictureFormat Object Members

Excel Developer Reference

Contains properties and methods that apply to pictures and OLE objects.

Methods

  Name Description
Bb256061.methods(en-us,office.12).gif IncrementBrightness Changes the brightness of the picture by the specified amount. Use the Brightness property to set the absolute brightness of the picture.
Bb256061.methods(en-us,office.12).gif IncrementContrast Changes the contrast of the picture by the specified amount. Use the Contrast property to set the absolute contrast for the picture.

Properties

  Name Description
Bb256061.properties(en-us,office.12).gif Application When used without an object qualifier, this property returns an Application object that represents the Microsoft Excel application. When used with an object qualifier, this property returns an Application object that represents the creator of the specified object (you can use this property with an OLE Automation object to return the application of that object). Read-only.
Bb256061.properties(en-us,office.12).gif Brightness Returns or sets the brightness of the specified picture or OLE object. The value for this property must be a number from 0.0 (dimmest) to 1.0 (brightest). Read/write Single.
Bb256061.properties(en-us,office.12).gif ColorType Returns or sets the type of color transformation applied to the specified picture or OLE object. Read/write MsoPictureColorType.
Bb256061.properties(en-us,office.12).gif Contrast Returns or sets the contrast for the specified picture or OLE object. The value for this property must be a number from 0.0 (the least contrast) to 1.0 (the greatest contrast). Read/write Single.
Bb256061.properties(en-us,office.12).gif Creator Returns a 32-bit integer that indicates the application in which this object was created. If the object was created in Microsoft Excel, this property returns the string XCEL, which is equivalent to the hexadecimal number 5843454C.
Bb256061.properties(en-us,office.12).gif CropBottom Returns or sets the number of points that are cropped off the bottom of the specified picture or OLE object. Read/write Single.
Bb256061.properties(en-us,office.12).gif CropLeft Returns or sets the number of points that are cropped off the left side of the specified picture or OLE object. Read/write Single.
Bb256061.properties(en-us,office.12).gif CropRight Returns or sets the number of points that are cropped off the right side of the specified picture or OLE object. Read/write Single.
Bb256061.properties(en-us,office.12).gif CropTop Returns or sets the number of points that are cropped off the top of the specified picture or OLE object. Read/write Single.
Bb256061.properties(en-us,office.12).gif Parent Returns the parent object for the specified object. Read-only.
Bb256061.properties(en-us,office.12).gif TransparencyColor Returns or sets the transparent color for the specified picture as a red-green-blue (RGB) value. For this property to take effect, the TransparentBackground property must be set to True. Applies to bitmaps only. Read/write Long.
Bb256061.properties(en-us,office.12).gif TransparentBackground Use the TransparencyColor property to set the transparent color. Applies to bitmaps only. Read/write MsoTriState.