TextFrame.ColumnGutter property - Developer Area

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TextFrame.ColumnGutter property

Gets the amount of space between columns

Syntax:

Property Get ColumnGutter(ByVal Index As Long) As Double

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
Index	Long	Specifies the gutter by its index number

Remarks:

The ColumnGutter property returns the amount of space between paragraph-text columns.

Examples:

The following VBA example links frames of paragraph text. It then creates three columns in the first frame, displaying 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

Version Information:

CorelDRAW:	X7.4, X7, X7.6, X8, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2019.2, 2020, 2021, 2020.1, 2021.5, 2022-v24, 2022-v24.1, 2022-v24.2, 2023-v24.3, 2023-v24.5, 2024-v25
Corel DESIGNER:	X7, 2017.1, 20.1, 2019.2, 2020.1, 2021.5, 2022-v24, 2022-v24.1, 2022-v24.2, 2023-v24.3, 2023-v24.5, 2024-v25