TextFrame.ColumnGutter

Property ColumnGutter(Index As Long) As Double

The ColumnGutter property returns the amount of space between columns.

The ColumnGutter property returns a read-only value.


Parameters	Description
Index	Specifies the gutter by its index number

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

Sub Test() 
 Dim s As Shape 
 Dim s1 As Shape 
 Dim s2 As Shape 
 Dim t As Text 
 Dim f As TextFrame 
 Dim d As Document 
 Set d = CreateDocument 
 Set s = d.ActiveLayer.CreateParagraphText(2, 2, 5, 5, String$(750, 
"Z")) 
 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 
 ' Get the first frame 
 Set f = t.Frames(1) 
 ' Set the columns 
 f.SetColumns 3, False, Array(1, 0.25, 2, 0.3, 3) 
 MsgBox "Gutter 1: " & f.ColumnGutter(1) & vbCr & _ 
  "Gutter 2: " & f.ColumnGutter(2) 
End Sub