I need to insert a textbox at the position of the mouse pointer in a Page of a word document whether there are text or not.
I have the following code to get the position:
I even got the following:
I have the following code to insert the textbox:
I just set the box in the beginning of the page
I have the following code to get the position:
Code:
Declare PtrSafe Function GetCursorPos Lib "user32" (lpPoint As POINTAPI) As Long
'Create custom variable that holds two integers
Type POINTAPI
Xcoord As Long
Ycoord As Long
End Type
Sub GetCursorPosDemo()
Dim llCoord As POINTAPI
'Get the cursor positions
GetCursorPos llCoord
'Display the cursor position coordinates
MsgBox "X Position: " & llCoord.Xcoord & vbNewLine & "Y Position: " & llCoord.Ycoord
End Sub
Code:
Sub GetPos()
Dim pLeft As Long
Dim pTop As Long
Dim pWidth As Long
Dim pHeight As Long
ActiveWindow.GetPoint pLeft, pTop, pWidth, pHeight, _
Selection.Range
MsgBox "Left = " & pLeft & vbLf _
& "Top = " & pTop & vbLf _
& "Width = " & pWidth & vbLf _
& "Height = " & pHeight
End Sub
Code:
Sub InsertTB()
Dim Shp As Shape
Set Shp = ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddTextbox(1, pTop , pLeft , 288, 72)
With Shp
.TextFrame.TextRange.InsertSymbol Font:="+Body", CharacterNumber:=9679, Unicode:=True
.Line.Visible = msoFalse
.Fill.Visible = msoFalse
.Width = 36#
.Height = 36#
End With
Set Shp = Nothing
End Sub