TextFrame.Previous

Property Previous As TextFrame

The Previous property returns the previous text frame, if any.

The Previous property returns a read-only value.

The following code example links frames of paragraph text. It then displays the index number of the frame before the last frame.

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(3) 
 MsgBox "The index of the previous frame is: " & f.Previous.Index 
End Sub