document-scratcharea-property-publisher.md

title	keywords	f1_keywords	ms.prod	api_name	ms.assetid	ms.date
Document.ScratchArea Property (Publisher)	vbapb10.chm196657	vbapb10.chm196657	publisher	Publisher.Document.ScratchArea	782d9b7f-b620-60f0-c21d-04f588c37cc6	06/08/2017

Document.ScratchArea Property (Publisher)

Returns a ScratchArea object for an a given document.

Syntax

expression. ScratchArea

_expression_A variable that represents a Document object.

Return Value

ScratchArea

Remarks

The ScratchArea object is a collection of objects on the scratch page. The ScratchArea object is not in the Pages collection because it is fundamentally not a page; its only similarity to a page is that it can contain objects.

Example

This example sets the variable object as the first shape on the scratch area of the active document.

Sub ScratchPad() 
 
 Dim saPage As ScratchArea 
 Dim objFirst As Object 
 
 saPage = Application.ActiveDocument.ScratchArea 
 objFirst = saPage.Shapes(1) 
 
End Sub