Balloon.Text Property

Note
The Microsoft Office Assistant and AnswerWizard have been depreciated in the release of the Microsoft Office system.

Syntax

expression.Text

expression A variable that represents a Balloon object.

Return Value
String

Remarks

You can specify that a particular graphic be displayed 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 denotes the width of the .wmf file (sizing_factor is omitted for .bmp files).

The Balloon object also supports underlined text and text that has one of the 16 system palette colors applied to it. To display underlined text, use the syntax {ul} or {ul 1}; use {ul 0} to turn underlining off. To change the color of 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.

If you specify a number other than one of the preceding system color numbers, the text in the Office Assistant balloon is black.

Example

This example creates an Office Assistant balloon with a heading, text, and three region choices. The example uses the Text property to provide balloon-related instructions to the user and a label for each text box.

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

This example creates an Office Assistant balloon that contains underlined heading text, red text, and blue text that is also underlined.

With Assistant.NewBalloon .Heading = "Underlined {ul 1}Heading{ul 0}" .Text = "Some {cf 249}Red{cf 0} text and some " & _ "underlined {cf 252}{ul 1}Blue{ul 0}{cf 0} text." .Show End With

See also:

• Balloon Object
• Balloon Object Members