How to Mix Font Styles within a Single TextRange in C#, VB.NET

To emphasize some words or phrases in a sentence, most probably you will set different formats such as font type, color, and size to these parts. When we programmatically insert a sentence with various kinds of font styles into a PowerPoint slide, it is an easy task if we format the text at the first place and then append the text to a paragraph. In this article, we attach more importance to introduce how to mix font styles within a single TextRange on an existing PowerPoint slide.

Test File:

As is shown in test file, all words in this TextRange are in the same font style. Now we would like to make some changes.

Code Snippet:

Step 1: Create a new PowerPoint document and load the test file.

Presentation ppt = new Presentation("Sample.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2010);

Step 2: Get the shape from PowerPoint slide, get the text from shape and save to a new string variable.

IAutoShape shape = ppt.Slides[0].Shapes[0] as IAutoShape;
string originalText = shape.TextFrame.Text;

Step 3: Split the string by specified words and return substrings to a string array.

string[] splitArray = originalText.Split(new string[] { "bold", "red","underlined","bigger font size" }, StringSplitOptions.None);

Step 4: Remove the paragraph from TextRange.

TextParagraph tp = shape.TextFrame.TextRange.Paragraph;
tp.TextRanges.Clear();

Step 5: Append normal text that is in front of ‘bold’ to the paragraph.

TextRange tr = new TextRange(splitArray[0]);
tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);

Step 6: Set font style of the text ‘bold’ as bold, and append it to the paragraph.

tr = new TextRange("bold");
tr.IsBold = TriState.True;
tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);

Step 7: Repeat step 5 and step 6 to append the rest normal texts and formatted texts to the paragraph.

//normal text
tr = new TextRange(splitArray[1]);
tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
//red text
tr = new TextRange("red");
tr.Fill.FillType = Spire.Presentation.Drawing.FillFormatType.Solid;
tr.Format.Fill.SolidColor.Color = Color.Red;
tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
//normal text
tr = new TextRange(splitArray[2]);
tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
//underline text
tr = new TextRange("underlined");
tr.TextUnderlineType = TextUnderlineType.Single;
tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
//normal text
tr = new TextRange(splitArray[3]);
tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
//bigger size text
tr = new TextRange("bigger font size");
tr.FontHeight = 35;
tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
//normal text
tr = new TextRange(splitArray[4]);
tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);

Step 8: Save the file.

ppt.SaveToFile("Result.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2010);

Output:

How to Mix Font Styles within a Single TextRange in C#, VB.NET

Full Code:

[C#]

using Spire.Presentation;
using System;
using System.Drawing;
namespace MixFontStyle
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Presentation ppt = new Presentation("Sample.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2010);
            IAutoShape shape = ppt.Slides[0].Shapes[0] as IAutoShape;
            string originalText = shape.TextFrame.Text;
            string[] splitArray = originalText.Split(new string[] { "bold", "red", "underlined", "bigger font size" }, StringSplitOptions.None);
            TextParagraph tp = shape.TextFrame.TextRange.Paragraph;
            tp.TextRanges.Clear();
            //normal text
            TextRange tr = new TextRange(splitArray[0]);
            tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
            //bold text
            tr = new TextRange("bold");
            tr.IsBold = TriState.True;
            tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
            //normal text
            tr = new TextRange(splitArray[1]);
            tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
            //red text
            tr = new TextRange("red");
            tr.Fill.FillType = Spire.Presentation.Drawing.FillFormatType.Solid;
            tr.Format.Fill.SolidColor.Color = Color.Red;
            tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
            //normal text
            tr = new TextRange(splitArray[2]);
            tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
            //underline text
            tr = new TextRange("underlined");
            tr.TextUnderlineType = TextUnderlineType.Single;
            tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
            //normal text
            tr = new TextRange(splitArray[3]);
            tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
            //bigger size text
            tr = new TextRange("bigger font size");
            tr.FontHeight = 35;
            tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
            //normal text
            tr = new TextRange(splitArray[4]);
            tp.TextRanges.Append(tr);
            ppt.SaveToFile("Result.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2010);

        }
    }
}

[VB.NET]

Imports Spire.Presentation
Imports System.Drawing
Namespace MixFontStyle
	Class Program
		Private Shared Sub Main(args As String())
			Dim ppt As New Presentation("Sample.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2010)
			Dim shape As IAutoShape = TryCast(ppt.Slides(0).Shapes(0), IAutoShape)
			Dim originalText As String = shape.TextFrame.Text
			Dim splitArray As String() = originalText.Split(New String() {"bold", "red", "underlined", "bigger font size"}, StringSplitOptions.None)
			Dim tp As TextParagraph = shape.TextFrame.TextRange.Paragraph
			tp.TextRanges.Clear()
			'normal text
			Dim tr As New TextRange(splitArray(0))
			tp.TextRanges.Append(tr)
			'bold text
			tr = New TextRange("bold")
			tr.IsBold = TriState.[True]
			tp.TextRanges.Append(tr)
			'normal text
			tr = New TextRange(splitArray(1))
			tp.TextRanges.Append(tr)
			'red text
			tr = New TextRange("red")
			tr.Fill.FillType = Spire.Presentation.Drawing.FillFormatType.Solid
			tr.Format.Fill.SolidColor.Color = Color.Red
			tp.TextRanges.Append(tr)
			'normal text
			tr = New TextRange(splitArray(2))
			tp.TextRanges.Append(tr)
			'underline text
			tr = New TextRange("underlined")
			tr.TextUnderlineType = TextUnderlineType.[Single]
			tp.TextRanges.Append(tr)
			'normal text
			tr = New TextRange(splitArray(3))
			tp.TextRanges.Append(tr)
			'bigger size text
			tr = New TextRange("bigger font size")
			tr.FontHeight = 35
			tp.TextRanges.Append(tr)
			'normal text
			tr = New TextRange(splitArray(4))
			tp.TextRanges.Append(tr)
			ppt.SaveToFile("Result.pptx", FileFormat.Pptx2010)

		End Sub
	End Class
End Namespace

How to Mix Font Styles within a Single TextRange in C#, VB.NET

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