Microsoft KB Archive/163694

= PPT: Sample Code to Apply Small Caps Formatting to Selection =

Article ID: 163694

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 98 for Macintosh
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q163694



SUMMARY
This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro (Sub procedure) that formats the lowercase letters in a selection as small capital letters and reduces their size to about eighty percent of their original point size. Small capital letters (small caps) formatting does not affect uppercase letters, punctuation, or nonalphabetic characters.



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Sample Visual Basic Procedure
Sub SetSmallCaps

' Used to trap errors. On Error Resume Next Err.Clear

' Dimension the variables. Dim oTextRange As TextRange Dim oWordRange As TextRange Dim lNewFontSize As Long Dim i As Long

' Get reference to the selected text. Set oTextRange = ActiveWindow.Selection.TextRange

' See whether error occurred getting text selection. If Err.Number <> 0 Then

MsgBox "Cannot apply Small Caps to selection. Please select " _ & "some text and run the macro again.", vbExclamation, _ "Invalid Selection"

' Stop the macro. End End If

' Loop through the words in the selection. For i = 1 To oTextRange.Paragraphs.Words.count

' Get a reference to the first word in the selection. Set oWordRange = oTextRange.Paragraphs.Words(i, 1)

' With oWordRange.Paragraphs.Characters(1, 1) With oWordRange.Characters(1, 1)

' Set the first letter to be upper case. .ChangeCase ppCaseUpper

' Calculate the new font size. lNewFontSize = ((.font.Size) / 1.3)

End With

' Change the remaining characters to the new font size. With oWordRange .Characters(2, (oWordRange.Length)).font.Size = lNewFontSize .Characters(2, (oWordRange.Length)).ChangeCase ppCaseUpper End With

Next i

End Sub

