TextFrame.Previous

Property Previous As TextFrame

Member of TextFrame

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

The Previous property returns a read-only value.

The following VBA example links frames of paragraph text, displaying 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 number of the previous frame is: " & f.Previous.Index

End Sub