Heading Property

Microsoft Office Visual Basic

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Returns or sets the heading that appears in the Office Assistant balloon. Read/write String.

Remarks

You can specify a graphic to be displayed in the balloon heading by using the following syntax: {type location sizing_factor}, where type is bmp (bitmap) or wmf (Windows metafile), location is the resource ID or the path and file name, and sizing_factor specifies the width of the wmf (omitted for bmp).

The balloon heading also supports underlined text and text that has one of the 16 system palette colors applied to it. To display underlined text in a heading, use the syntax {ul} or {ul 1}; use {ul 0} to turn underlining off. To change the color of heading text, precede the text string with the character sequence {cf number}, where number is one of the system color numbers listed in the following table.

System color number Color
0 Black
1 Dark red
2 Dark green
3 Dark yellow
4 Dark blue
5 Dark magenta
6 Dark cyan
7 Light gray
248 Medium gray
249 Red
250 Green
251 Yellow
252 Blue
253 Magenta
254 Cyan
255 White

If you specify a number other than one of the preceding system color numbers, the heading text is black.

Example

This example displays a balloon with a heading, text, and three region choices.

With Assistant.NewBalloon
    .Button = msoButtonSetOkCancel
    .Heading = "Regional Sales Data"
    .Text = "Select a region"
    For i = 1 To 3
        .CheckBoxes(i).Text = "Region " & i
    Next
    .Show
End With