Para class

Para class

Contains the paragraph formatting elements for the shape’s text, such as indents, line spacing, bullets, and horizontal alignment of paragraphs.

The Para type exposes the following members:

Constructors

Constructor Description
Para() Constructor.

Properties

Property Description
ix The zero-based index of the element within its parent element.
ind_first Specifies the distance the first line of each paragraph in the shape’s text block is indented from the left indent of the paragraph. This value is independent of the scale of the drawing. If the drawing is scaled, the first line indent remains the same.
ind_left Specifies the distance all lines of text in a paragraph are indented from the left margin of the text block. This value is independent of the scale of the drawing. If the drawing is scaled, the left indent remains the same.
ind_right Specifies the distance all lines of text in a paragraph are indented from the right margin of the text block. This value is independent of the scale of the drawing. If the drawing is scaled, the right indent remains the same.
sp_line Specifies the distance between one line of text and the next, where 100% is the height of a text line.
sp_before Specifies the amount of space inserted before each paragraph in the shape’s text block.
sp_after Specifies the amount of space inserted after each paragraph in the shape’s text block.
horz_align Specifies the horizontal alignment of text in the shape’s text block.
bullet Determines the bullet style.
bullet_str “Used to create a custom bullet style. Enter the style as a string (within quotation marks). For example, you could enter the string, ““ooo.”””
bullet_font Represents the number of the font used to format the text when a custom bullet string is specified and the value in the Bullet element is non-zero.
localize_bullet_font Specifies whether the bullet font should be localized (translated into another language).
bullet_font_size Specifies the size of a bullet.
text_pos_after_bullet Represents the distance between the first line of the paragraph and the bullet.
flags Indicates whether the text direction is left to right or right to left.

Methods

Method Description
clone() Creates deep copy of this instance.

See Also