Tracking Property

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

expression.Tracking

expression    Required. An expression that returns a TextEffectFormat object.

Remarks

The following table gives the values of the Tracking property that correspond to the settings available in the user interface.

User interface setting Equivalent Tracking property value
Very Tight 0.8
Tight 0.9
Normal 1.0
Loose 1.2
Very Loose 1.5

Example

This example adds WordArt that contains the text "Test" to the active document and specifies that the characters be very tightly spaced.

Set newWordArt = ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddTextEffect( _
    PresetTextEffect:=msoTextEffect1, Text:="Test", _
    FontName:="Arial Black", FontSize:=36, FontBold:=False, _
    FontItalic:=False, Left:=100, Top:=100)
newWordArt.TextEffect.Tracking = 0.8