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PlaceholderType
The placeholder types. Many of these placeholder types correspond to placeholder IDs from the
ECMA-376 standard. More information on those shapes can be found in the description of the
"ST_PlaceholderType" type in section 19.7.10 of "Office Open XML File Formats - Fundamentals and
Markup Language Reference", part 1 ofECMA-376 5th
edition.
To call an enum, you call its parent class, name, and property. For example,SlidesApp.PlaceholderType.BODY.
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