FontItalic Property

Sets or returns an MsoTriState constant that represents whether the font for a dropped capital letter or WordArt text effect is italicized. Read/write.

MsoTriState can be one of these MsoTriState constants.

msoCTrue

msoFalse

msoTriStateMixed

msoTriStateToggle

msoTrue

expression.FontItalic

expression Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Example

This example italicizes the dropped capital letter in the specified text frame. This example assumes that the specified text frame is formatted with a dropped capital letter.

Sub BoldDropCap()
    With ActiveDocument.Pages(1).Shapes(1) _
            .TextFrame.TextRange.DropCap
        .FontBold = msoTrue
        .FontColor.RGB = RGB(Red:=150, Green:=50, Blue:=180)
        .FontItalic = msoTrue
        .FontName = "Script MT Bold"
    End With
End Sub