Font properties

[John]

Hi!
How can I get to know the Font properties of the footer on each slide.
Also can I get to know the exact location of the Footer contents e.g. the
Left and Top of Date and Time, Slide Number, and footer text

John

 

[TAJ Simmons]

John,

Chance are the "text boxes" that hold the footers are on the relevant
"masters"

view menu > master >

then choose from
- slide master
- notes master
- handout master

You can select the text box then change the font that is used

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[John]

Sorry my mistake , I forgot to mention that I need to modify them through
coding.
Is that possible?

Thanks

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi!
How can I get to know the Font properties of the footer on each slide.
Also can I get to know the exact location of the Footer contents e.g. the
Left and Top of Date and Time, Slide Number, and footer text

What TAJ said.

Also, our free PPTools Starter Set includes a tool that'll tell you the top,
left, width, height of a selected shape.

http://starterset.pptools.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Sorry my mistake , I forgot to mention that I need to modify them through
coding.
Is that possible?

Yes. What exactly do you need to do?

 

[John]

What TAJ said.

I can get the Left, top of all the shapes that s not a problem. I can even
extract their font properties and text.
The problem is that there are approx 5 shapes on the master slide. How do I
get to know which shape is for the date, which is for the footer and which
one is for the Slide number.
Is there any way out through which we can differentiate between the 5
placeholders on the master slide.

John

 

[John]

What TAJ said.

I can get the Left, top of all the shapes that s not a problem. I can even
extract their font properties and text.
The problem is that there are approx 5 shapes on the master slide. How do I
get to know which shape is for the date, which is for the footer and which
one is for the Slide number.
Is there any way out through which we can differentiate between the 5
placeholders on the master slide.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I can get the Left, top of all the shapes that s not a problem. I can even
extract their font properties and text.
The problem is that there are approx 5 shapes on the master slide. How do I
get to know which shape is for the date, which is for the footer and which
one is for the Slide number.
Is there any way out through which we can differentiate between the 5
placeholders on the master slide.

John

Dim oSh as Shape
For each oSh in ActivePresentation.SlideMaster.Shapes

if oSh.Type = msoPlaceholder Then
debug.print oSh.Name & vbtab & oSh.PlaceholderFormat.Type
End if

Next

The object browser (press F2 while in the IDE) will tell you which .Type is
which.

 

[John]

Dim oSh as Shape
For each oSh in ActivePresentation.SlideMaster.Shapes

if oSh.Type = msoPlaceholder Then
debug.print oSh.Name & vbtab & oSh.PlaceholderFormat.Type
End if

Next

Thanks a lot Steve this is exactly what I wanted , to know the Plceholder
Type.


John