pptx-ts

Interface: TableCellProps ​

Extends ​

Extended by ​

Properties ​

align? ​

optional align?: HAlign

Horizontal alignment

When a shape's text is an array of runs, set this on every run of a paragraph. breakLine is not the only paragraph boundary: two adjacent runs whose align differs start a new one, so stating it on the opening run alone splits the paragraph in two. That is the mirror of bullet, paraMarginLeft and paraIndent, which are read from the opening run only. Neither mistake changes the run count: the only symptom is a differently shaped paragraph, with no error.

Default ​

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'left'

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.align

anchorCtr? ​

optional anchorCtr?: boolean

Centre the cell's whole text block horizontally within the cell (a:tcPr/@anchorCtr), independent of each paragraph's own align.

The two do different things and compose: align decides where each line sits inside the text block, anchorCtr decides where that block sits inside the cell. With left-aligned text in a wide cell, anchorCtr: true centres the ragged-right column of lines as a unit while keeping their left edges flush with each other.

false is the schema default, so it emits nothing, the same reasoning as horzOverflow: 'clip'.

Default ​

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false

autoPageCharWeight? ​

optional autoPageCharWeight?: number

Auto-paging character weight

  • adjusts how many characters are used before lines wrap
  • range: -1.0 to 1.0

Default ​

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0.0

Example ​

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0.5 // lines are longer (increases the number of characters that can fit on a given line)

baseline? ​

optional baseline?: number

Baseline shift, as TextPropsOptions.baseline takes it on a text run: above zero raises the text, below zero lowers it. On a cell it applies to every run that states none.

bold? ​

optional bold?: boolean

Bold style

Default ​

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false

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.bold

border? ​

optional border?: StrokeProps | [StrokeProps | null, StrokeProps | null, StrokeProps | null, StrokeProps | null]

The cell's four edge borders (a:tcPr/a:lnT|lnR|lnB|lnL).

  • a single BorderProps is broadcast to all four sides
  • an array is read in TRBL order ([top, right, bottom, left])

Overrides the table-level TableProps.border default entirely; the two do not merge per side. A null entry is a hole: that edge is left out of a:tcPr and keeps inheriting from the table style, while { type: 'none' } writes an explicit no-line that overrides it. For the two corner-to-corner rules see diagonal; for the table's outside edge see TableProps.outerBorder.

breakLine? ​

optional breakLine?: boolean

Add a line-break

Default ​

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false

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.breakLine

bullet? ​

optional bullet?: boolean | "inherit" | TextBulletProps

Add standard or custom bullet

  • use true for standard bullet
  • pass object options for custom bullet
  • false is the explicit off: it writes <a:buNone/> plus marL="0" indent="0", which overrides whatever bullet the layout's or master's list style sets for this level
  • 'inherit' states nothing at all (no bullet child and no margin attributes), so the list style keeps reaching the paragraph
  • omitting the option means 'inherit' on a placeholder definition (defineSlideMaster({ objects })), and on text filling a placeholder the layout defines, which takes the definition's bullet. Anywhere else it means false

The margins are only a default of the bullet state: paraMarginLeft and paraIndent state @marL/@indent independently in any of the three, including an inherited margin under a drawn bullet.

When a shape's text is an array of runs, state this on the opening run only. A run that draws a bullet starts a new paragraph by itself, so repeating it (the placement that align requires) turns one three-run paragraph into three one-run paragraphs. A paragraph takes its properties from its first run.

Default ​

false, or 'inherit' on a placeholder

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.bullet

caps? ​

optional caps?: "small" | "all" | "none"

Text capitalization (a:rPr/@cap, ST_TextCapsType)

  • 'all' = ALL CAPS
  • 'small' = Small Caps
  • 'none' = the explicit off: it writes cap="none", which overrides a capitalization the run would otherwise inherit. Omitting the option states nothing and lets that inheritance stand
  • PowerPoint: Font > Effects > All Caps / Small Caps

Default ​

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(unset) inherit

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.caps

cell3D? ​

optional cell3D?: TableCell3DProps

A 3-D bevel on the cell (a:tcPr/a:cell3D). Niche: PowerPoint's table UI has no control for it, so it reaches a deck from a theme or another producer, and this exists to author and reproduce one. See TableCell3DProps.

charSpacing? ​

optional charSpacing?: number

Character spacing in points, as TextPropsOptions.charSpacing. On a cell it applies to every run that states none.

color? ​

optional color?: string

Text color

  • HexColor or ThemeColor
  • MS-PPT > Format Shape > Text Options > Text Fill & Outline > Text Fill > Color

Examples ​

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'FF0000' // hex color (red)
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SchemeColor.text1 // Theme color (Text1)

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.color

colspan? ​

optional colspan?: number

Cell colspan

diagonal? ​

optional diagonal?: TableCellDiagonals

The cell's corner-to-corner rules: PowerPoint's "Diagonal Down/Up Border".

Kept off border's tuple on purpose: see TableCellDiagonals. A diagonal on a merged cell is one stroke across the whole region, so only the span origin carries it. The covered cells inherit the origin's edges but never its diagonals.

Example ​

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diagonal: { tlToBr: { type:'solid', color:'C00000' } } // strike the cell out

fill? ​

optional fill?: FillOption

Cell fill: a solid color, or a picture that fills the cell (a:blipFill in the cell's a:tcPr, stretched to the cell box). A picture fill embeds the image as slide media; identical sources are embedded once. Raster only: an SVG source warns and is ignored, matching shape fills. A bare Color is shorthand for a solid fill (FillOption).

Examples ​

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'FF0000' // hex color (red), shorthand for { color:'FF0000' }
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{ color:'FF0000' } // hex color (red)
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{ color:'0088CC', transparency:50 } // hex color, 50% transparent
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{ color:SchemeColor.accent1 } // theme color Accent1
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{ type:'image', image:{ path:'logo.png' } } // picture fill
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{ image:{ data:'image/png;base64,…' } } // picture fill, `type` inferred

fit? ​

optional fit?: "resize" | "none" | TextFitShrinkProps | "shrink"

Shrink cell text to fit when it would overflow the cell's fixed height.

  • 'shrink' measures the wrapped text and bakes a reduced literal font size onto the cell's runs so the text fits. PowerPoint does not support text autofit (normAutofit) inside table cells, so there is no font-scale flag to set; the size itself is lowered, which both PowerPoint and LibreOffice render identically with no edit/resize.
  • Requires the cell font registered via PptxTs.registerFontMetrics. With no metrics registered at all it is a silent no-op (the cell keeps its authored size); once any face is registered, an unregistered face is estimated and warns once per write.
  • Only triggers when the cell's row has a fixed height that the text exceeds. With auto-height rows (no rowH/h), the row simply grows, so nothing shrinks.
  • Only 'shrink' is acted on for cells. 'resize' and the object form are ignored here: a table row already auto-grows to fit its tallest cell (the cell equivalent of spAutoFit), so there is nothing to bake. (The wider union is shared with TextPropsOptions.fit so table-level fit can cascade to cells.)

Example ​

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'shrink' // measured when the cell font is registered; else no-op

fontFace? ​

optional fontFace?: string

Font face name

Applied to the Latin (<a:latin>) and complex-script (<a:cs>) font slots, matching how PowerPoint writes a font picked from the UI. The East Asian slot (<a:ea>) is left to inherit from the theme unless fontFaceEA is set. Forcing a Latin-only face into the East Asian slot duplicates/ghosts text in Office 365.

Example ​

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'Arial' // Arial font

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.fontFace

fontFaceEA? ​

optional fontFaceEA?: string

East Asian font face name (<a:ea> slot), used to render CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) glyphs

Independent of fontFace: set alone, it writes only <a:ea> and the Latin and complex-script slots keep inheriting. When omitted, <a:ea> inherits the theme East Asian font, which is what PowerPoint does for Latin fonts.

Example ​

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'微軟正黑體' // render East Asian glyphs with Microsoft JhengHei

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.fontFaceEA

fontSize? ​

optional fontSize?: number

Font size

Example ​

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12 // Font size 12

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.fontSize

highlight? ​

optional highlight?: string

Text highlight color (hex format)

Example ​

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'FFFF00' // yellow

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.highlight

horzOverflow? ​

optional horzOverflow?: "clip" | "overflow"

What happens to a single glyph wider than the cell's text width (a:tcPr/@horzOverflow).

  • 'clip' (PowerPoint's default) cuts the glyph off at the cell edge
  • 'overflow' lets it draw past the edge, over whatever is beside it

This is not a text-wrap switch, despite the name. Lines always wrap to the column width; only an individual character too wide to fit on a line by itself is affected, so it matters for oversized display type, wide CJK/emoji glyphs, and icon fonts in a narrow column. PowerPoint has no per-cell no-wrap at all: wrap="none" on a cell's a:bodyPr is discarded on the next save (probe: test/read/fixtures/authoring/probe-table-cell-wrap.ps1). 'clip' is written as asked but is the schema default, so PowerPoint drops the attribute again the first time it saves the deck. The visible result is the same either way, and leaving this unset emits nothing at all.

Default ​

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(unset; PowerPoint clips)

Example ​

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'overflow' // a 60pt glyph in a 0.5in column draws whole instead of being cut

optional hyperlink?: HyperlinkProps

indentLevel? ​

optional indentLevel?: number

Outline level of the paragraph a run starts, as TextPropsOptions.indentLevel.

italic? ​

optional italic?: boolean

italic style

Default ​

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false

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.italic

kerning? ​

optional kerning?: number

Kerning threshold in points, as TextPropsOptions.kerning. On a cell it applies to every run that states none.

lang? ​

optional lang?: string

language

  • ISO 639-1 standard language code

Default ​

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'en-US' // english US

Example ​

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'fr-CA' // french Canadian

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.lang

lineSpacing? ​

optional lineSpacing?: number

Line spacing in points, as TextPropsOptions.lineSpacing.

lineSpacingMultiple? ​

optional lineSpacingMultiple?: number

Line spacing as a multiple of single spacing, as TextPropsOptions.lineSpacingMultiple.

margin? ​

optional margin?: Margin

Cell margin (inches), in [top, right, bottom, left] order

Default ​

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[0.05, 0.1, 0.05, 0.1]

paraIndent? ​

optional paraIndent?: number | "inherit"

First-line indent (points): a:pPr/@indent, the offset of the paragraph's FIRST line from paraMarginLeft. Negative hangs the first line to the left of the body, which is what a bulleted paragraph does; positive indents it to the right, the "first line indented" prose form. PowerPoint: Paragraph > Indentation > Special.

  • 'inherit' writes no @indent at all, so the paragraph takes whatever its list style (a:lstStyle → placeholder → layout → master) sets: the same third state bullet spells, on the attribute beside it
  • omitting the option keeps the bullet-derived default: a drawn bullet hangs the first line by its margin, bullet: false writes indent="0", bullet: 'inherit' writes nothing
  • a value here overrides all of those, in every bullet state

Examples ​

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-18 // hang the first line 18pt left of the body text
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18 // indent the first line 18pt, prose style
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'inherit' // keep the list style's indent, even on a bulleted paragraph

Remarks ​

Read from the opening run of a paragraph, like bullet and unlike align; a value on a continuation run is ignored.

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.paraIndent

paraMarginLeft? ​

optional paraMarginLeft?: number | "inherit"

Left margin of the paragraph (points): a:pPr/@marL, where the paragraph's body text starts. This is the paragraph's own margin, not the text frame's internal padding (margin) and not the discrete outline level (indentLevel, which writes a:p/@lvl). PowerPoint: Paragraph > Indentation > Before text.

  • 'inherit' writes no @marL at all, so the paragraph takes whatever its list style (a:lstStyle → placeholder → layout → master) sets, the third state that omission cannot spell, since omitting it writes the bullet-derived default
  • omitting the option keeps that default: a drawn bullet writes its own margin (see bullet.indent), bullet: false writes marL="0", bullet: 'inherit' writes nothing
  • a value here overrides all of those, in every bullet state

Examples ​

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36 // body text starts 36pt (0.5in) from the frame's text edge
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'inherit' // keep the list style's margin, even on a bulleted paragraph

Remarks ​

Read from the opening run of a paragraph, like bullet and unlike align; a value on a continuation run is ignored.

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.paraMarginLeft

paraSpaceAfter? ​

optional paraSpaceAfter?: number

Space after the paragraph in points, as TextPropsOptions.paraSpaceAfter.

paraSpaceBefore? ​

optional paraSpaceBefore?: number

Space before the paragraph in points, as TextPropsOptions.paraSpaceBefore.

rowspan? ​

optional rowspan?: number

Cell rowspan

shadow? ​

optional shadow?: ShadowProps

Text shadow (a:rPr/a:effectLst), as TextPropsOptions.shadow takes it on a run. A cell has no shape effect of its own, so on a cell this is the shadow of every run that states none.

softBreakBefore? ​

optional softBreakBefore?: boolean

Add a soft line-break (shift+enter) before line text content

Default ​

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false

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.softBreakBefore

strike? ​

optional strike?: NonNullable<boolean | "noStrike" | "sngStrike" | "dblStrike" | undefined>

Strikethrough, as TextPropsOptions.strike takes it on a text run. On a cell it applies to every run that states none; on a run inside a cell's text, to that run.

tabStops? ​

optional tabStops?: object[]

tab stops

  • PowerPoint: Paragraph > Tabs > Tab stop position

alignment? ​

optional alignment?: "r" | "ctr" | "l" | "dec"

position ​

position: number

Example ​

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[{ position:1 }, { position:3 }] // Set first tab stop to 1 inch, set second tab stop to 3 inches

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.tabStops

textDirection? ​

optional textDirection?: "horz" | "vert" | "vert270" | "wordArtVert"

text direction horz = horizontal vert = rotate 90^ vert270 = rotate 270^ wordArtVert = stacked

Default ​

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'horz'

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.textDirection

textWarp? ​

optional textWarp?: "textNoShape" | "textPlain" | "textStop" | "textTriangle" | "textTriangleInverted" | "textChevron" | "textChevronInverted" | "textRingInside" | "textRingOutside" | "textArchUp" | "textArchDown" | "textCircle" | "textButton" | "textArchUpPour" | "textArchDownPour" | "textCirclePour" | "textButtonPour" | "textCurveUp" | "textCurveDown" | "textCanUp" | "textCanDown" | "textWave1" | "textWave2" | "textDoubleWave1" | "textWave4" | "textInflate" | "textDeflate" | "textInflateBottom" | "textDeflateBottom" | "textInflateTop" | "textDeflateTop" | "textDeflateInflate" | "textDeflateInflateDeflate" | "textFadeRight" | "textFadeLeft" | "textFadeUp" | "textFadeDown" | "textSlantUp" | "textSlantDown" | "textCascadeUp" | "textCascadeDown"

Preset text warp / WordArt shape (<a:bodyPr><a:prstTxWarp prst="..">), which bends the text along a preset path (arch, circle, wave, …): the whole ST_TextShapeType set.

Examples ​

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'textArchUp' // bend text along an upward arch (e.g. a label following a ring/arc)
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'textCircle'

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.textWarp

transparency? ​

optional transparency?: number

Transparency (percent)

  • MS-PPT > Format Shape > Text Options > Text Fill & Outline > Text Fill > Transparency
  • range: 0-100

Default ​

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0

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.transparency

underline? ​

optional underline?: boolean | { color?: string; style?: "none" | "words" | "sng" | "dbl" | "heavy" | "dotted" | "dottedHeavy" | "dash" | "dashHeavy" | "dashLong" | "dashLongHeavy" | "dotDash" | "dotDashHeavy" | "dotDotDash" | "dotDotDashHeavy" | "wavy" | "wavyHeavy" | "wavyDbl"; }

underline properties

  • PowerPoint: Font > Color & Underline > Underline Style/Underline Color
  • style is the full ST_TextUnderlineType enumeration (ECMA-376 §20.1.10.81)
  • 'none' is the explicit off: it writes a:rPr/@u="none", which overrides an underline the run would otherwise inherit from its list style, placeholder, layout or master. Omitting the option instead states nothing and lets that inheritance stand. The two are different facts, not two spellings of one.
  • true is shorthand for { style: 'sng' }, a single line. false states nothing, as omitting the option does, so an inherited underline stands; { style: 'none' } is the explicit off.

Default ​

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(unset) inherit

Examples ​

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underline: true // single underline
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underline: { style: 'dbl', color: 'FF0000' } // red double underline

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.underline

valign? ​

optional valign?: VAlign

vertical alignment

Default ​

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'top'

Inherited from ​

TextBaseProps.valign