In VBA, it's possible to loop through shapes. For example:
For Each shp In slide.Shapes
shp.top=0
Next
The question is, which parameter is being used to determine the order of the loop and how can this parameter be set?
In VBA, it's possible to loop through shapes. For example:
For Each shp In slide.Shapes
shp.top=0
Next
The question is, which parameter is being used to determine the order of the loop and how can this parameter be set?
edited after OP's clarification about his need of looping through shapes from the highest on the lowest
you can use SortedList
object use Shape
Top
property as the SortedList
key and the Shape
object itself as its corresponding value:
Sub Main()
Dim shp As Shape
Dim j As Long
With CreateObject("System.Collections.SortedList")
For Each shp In slide.Shapes
.Add shp.Top, shp
Next
For j = 0 To .Count - 1 'list shapes from the highest to the lowest
MsgBox .GetByIndex(j).Name & " - " & .getkey(j)
Next
End With
End Sub
I found the answer on the MicroSoft site:
Shape.ZOrderPosition Property (PowerPoint)
The site says "A shape's position in the z-order corresponds to the shape's index number in the Shapes collection.".
I then did a short sort routine to set the z-order position based on the .top parameter of the shape:
For i = 2 To sld.Shapes.Count
If sld.Shapes(i).Top < sld.Shapes(i - 1).Top _
and sld.Shapes(i).ZOrderPosition > sld.Shapes(i - 1).ZOrderPosition Then_
sld.Shapes(i).ZOrder msoSendBackward
Next i