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Shape.OLEFormat Property

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PowerPoint Developer Reference

Returns an OLEFormat object that contains OLE formatting properties for the specified shape. Applies to Shape or ShapeRange objects that represent OLE objects. Read-only.

Syntax

expression.OLEFormat

expression   A variable that represents a Shape object.

Return Value
OLEFormat

Example

This example loops through all the objects on all the slides in the active presentation and sets all linked Microsoft Word documents to be updated manually.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  For Each sld In ActivePresentation.Slides
    For Each sh In sld.Shapes
        If sh.Type = msoLinkedOLEObject Then
            If sh.OLEFormat.ProgID = "Word.Document" Then
                sh.LinkFormat.AutoUpdate = ppUpdateOptionManual
            End If
        End If
    Next
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