TextRange.BoundLeft Property

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PowerPoint Developer Reference

Returns the distance (in points) from the left edge of the text bounding box for the specified text frame to the left edge of the slide. Read-only.

Syntax

expression.BoundLeft

expression   A variable that represents a TextRange object.

Return Value
Single

Example

This example adds a rounded rectangle to slide one in the active presentation. The rectangle has the same dimensions as the text bounding box for shape one.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  With Application.ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Shapes
    Set tr = .Item(1).TextFrame.TextRange
    Set roundRect = .AddShape(msoShapeRoundedRectangle, _
        tr.BoundLeft, tr.BoundTop, tr.BoundWidth, tr.BoundHeight)
End With
With roundRect.Fill
    .ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 0, 128)
    .Transparency = 0.75
End With

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