The Microsoft Office PowerPoint Visual Basic object model has language-specific keywords for use with Asian and right-to-left languages. The availability of these language-specific keywords depends on the language support you have selected or installed.
Language-Specific Properties and Methods
Properties and methods that are available only in Asian or right-to-left languages are listed in the following table.
Property or Method
Object
AutoRotateNumbers property
Font
FarEastLineBreakLanguage property
Presentation
FarEastLineBreakLevel property
Presentation
FarEastLineBreakControl property
ParagraphFormat
HangingPunctuation property
ParagraphFormat
LayoutDirection property
Presentation
LtrRun method
TextRange
NameAscii property
Font
NameFarEast property
Font
NameOther property
Font
NoLineBreakAfter property
Presentation
NoLineBreakBefore property
Presentation
RtlRun method
TextRange
TableDirection property
Table
TextDirection property
ParagraphFormat
Language-Specific Arguments
Properties and methods that are available in all languages, but that have one or more language-specific arguments, are listed in the following table.
Property or Method
Object
AddLabel method
Shapes
AddTextBox method
Shapes
Orientation property
TextFrame
SaveAs method
Presentation
Note
To enable the language-specific features in Microsoft Office PowerPoint, you must be running a 32-bit version of the Microsoft Windows operating system that has support for that particular language—for example, the Arabic version of Microsoft Windows 95 has right-to-left support.