Microsoft KB Archive/282231

= Visio2000: Sample Macro to Iterate Through All the Individual Shapes in a Group =

Article ID: 282231

Article Last Modified on 1/29/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visio 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visio 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visio 2000 Technical Edition
 * Microsoft Visio 2000 Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q282231



SUMMARY
This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro that you can use to iterate through all the shapes in a group, for example, to apply common formatting to the individual shapes.



MORE INFORMATION
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Sample Code
The following procedure changes the colors in a selected group to yellow: Public Sub ChangeGroupColors

Dim visGroupShape As Visio.Shape Dim visShapeCount As Integer Set visGroupShape = ActiveWindow.Selection(1) 'Ensure that the selection is a Group. If visGroupShape.Type <> visTypeGroup Then Exit Sub End If  ' Iterate through each of the Group's shapes, and ' apply the color formatting. For visShapeCount = 1 To visGroupShape.Shapes.Count visGroupShape.Shapes(visShapeCount).Cells(&quot;FillForeGnd&quot;) = 5 Next

End Sub

