Language-Specific Properties and Methods
The Microsoft Office PowerPoint Visual Basic object model has language-specific keywords for use with Asian and right-to-left languages. The availability of these language-specific keywords depends on the language support you have selected or installed.
Language-Specific Properties and Methods
Properties and methods that are available only in Asian or right-to-left languages are listed in the following table.
| Property or Method | Object |
|---|---|
| AutoRotateNumbers property | Font |
| FarEastLineBreakLanguage property | Presentation |
| FarEastLineBreakLevel property | Presentation |
| FarEastLineBreakControl property | ParagraphFormat |
| HangingPunctuation property | ParagraphFormat |
| LayoutDirection property | Presentation |
| LtrRun method | TextRange |
| NameAscii property | Font |
| NameFarEast property | Font |
| NameOther property | Font |
| NoLineBreakAfter property | Presentation |
| NoLineBreakBefore property | Presentation |
| RtlRun method | TextRange |
| TableDirection property | Table |
| TextDirection property | ParagraphFormat |
Language-Specific Arguments
Properties and methods that are available in all languages, but that have one or more language-specific arguments, are listed in the following table.
| Property or Method | Object |
|---|---|
| AddLabel method | Shapes |
| AddTextBox method | Shapes |
| Orientation property | TextFrame |
| SaveAs method | Presentation |
 Note
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| To enable the language-specific features in Microsoft Office PowerPoint, you must be running a 32-bit version of the Microsoft Windows operating system that has support for that particular language-for example, the Arabic version of Microsoft Windows 95 has right-to-left support. |