Start Property [Excel 2003 VBA Language Reference]

Returns the position that represents the first character of a phonetic text string in the specified cell. Read-only Long.

Example

This example returns the starting position of the second phonetic text string in the active cell.

ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = ""
ActiveCell.Phonetics.Add Start:=1, Length:=3, Text:=""
ActiveCell.Phonetics.Add Start:=4, Length:=3, Text:=""
MsgBox ActiveCell.Phonetics(2).Start

Applies to | Phonetics Collection Object