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Shapes.AddTextbox Method

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Adds a text box to a drawing canvas.

Syntax

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

expression   Required. A variable that represents a Shapes collection.

Parameters

Name Required/Optional Data Type Description
Required MsoTextOrientation The orientation of the text. Some of these 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.

Return Value
Shape

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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