TextColumns.Count

Property Count As Long

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

The Count property returns a read-only value.

The following VBA example links frames of paragraph text. In the first frame, it then creates three columns displays the number of columns.

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