TextFrame.Multicolumn

Property Multicolumn As Boolean

The Multicolumn property returns True if the frame has more than one column.

The Multicolumn property returns a read-only value.

The following code example links frames of paragraph text. The text in the first frame is fitted to a path and is divided into three columns. The number of columns in each multicolumned frame is then displayed.

Sub Test() 
 Dim d As Document 
 Dim s As Shape 
 Dim s1 As Shape 
 Dim s2 As Shape 
 Dim t As Text 
 Dim f As TextFrame 
 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.CreateEllipse(1, 1, 3, 3) 
 Set t = s.Text 
 ' Fit the text to path. 
 s1.Text.FitToPath s2 
 ' Link the frames together. 
 t.Frame.LinkTo s1 
 ' Get the first frame. 
 Set f = t.Frames(1) 
 ' Set the columns 
 f.SetColumns 3, False, Array(1, 0.3, 2, 0.3, 3) 
 For Each f In t.Frames 
  If f.Multicolumn Then 
   MsgBox "There are " & f.ColumnCount & " columns in frame " & 
f.Index 
  End If 
 Next f 
End Sub