AddTextbox Method

Microsoft PowerPoint Visual Basic

object that represents the new text box.

expression.AddTextbox(Orientation, Left, Top, Width, Height)

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Orientation   Required MsoTextOrientation. The text orientation. Some of these constants may not be available to you, depending on the language support (U.S. English, for example) that you’ve selected or installed.

MsoTextOrientation can be one of these MsoTextOrientation constants.
msoTextOrientationDownward
msoTextOrientationHorizontal
msoTextOrientationHorizontalRotatedFarEast
msoTextOrientationMixed
msoTextOrientationUpward
msoTextOrientationVertical
msoTextOrientationVerticalFarEast

Left    Required Single. The position, measured in points, of the left edge of the text box relative to the left edge of the slide.

Top    Required Single. The position, measured in points, of the top edge of the text box relative to the top edge of the slide.

Width    Required Single. The width of the text box, measured in points.

Height    Required Single. The height of the text box, measured in points.

Example

This example adds a text box that contains the text "Test Box" to myDocument.

Set myDocument = ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
myDocument.Shapes.AddTextbox(Type:=msoTextOrientationHorizontal, _
    Left:=100, Top:=100, Width:=200, Height:=50).TextFrame _
    .TextRange.Text = "Test Box"