TextColumns.Count

Property Count As Long

The Count property returns the number of text columns in the collection.

The Count property returns a read-only value.

The following code example links frames of paragraph text. It then creates three columns in the first frame and displays the number of columns in the first frame.

Sub Test() 
 Dim s As Shape 
 Dim s1 As Shape 
 Dim s2 As Shape 
 Dim d As Document 
 Dim t As Text 
 Dim strText As String 
 strText = "This is a test. This sentence must be long enough " & _ 
  "to span across multiple columns in this frame. I am sure " & _ 
  "that it will cross multiple columns now." 
 strText = strText & " This is the next sentence. " & strText 
 Set d = CreateDocument 
 Set s = d.ActiveLayer.CreateParagraphText(2, 2, 5, 5, strText) 
 Set s1 = d.ActiveLayer.CreateParagraphText(5, 5, 8, 8) 
 Set s2 = d.ActiveLayer.CreateParagraphText(8, 8, 10, 10) 
 Set t = s.Text 
 ' Link the frames together 
 t.Frame.LinkTo s1 
 s1.Text.Frame.LinkTo s2 
 ' Set the columns 
 t.Frame.SetColumns 3, False, Array(0.7, 0.1, 1, 0.1, 1) 
 MsgBox "The column count for the frame is " & 
t.Frame.Range.Columns.Count 
End Sub