TextFrame.Multicolumn property - Developer Area

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TextFrame.Multicolumn property

Returns True if the frame has more than one column

Syntax:

Property Get Multicolumn() As Boolean

Remarks:

The Multicolumn property returns True if a paragraph-text frame has more than one column.

Examples:

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

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