TextFrame.Empty

Property Empty As Boolean

Member of TextFrame

The Empty property returns True if a paragraph-text frame is empty.

The Empty property returns a read-only value.

The following VBA example links frames of paragraph text together and displays which frames are empty.

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

Dim st As String

Set d = CreateDocument

Set s = d.ActiveLayer.CreateParagraphText(2, 2, 5, 5, String$(1000, "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

For Each f In t.Frames

If f.Empty Then

st = st & "Frame " & f.Index & vbCr

End If

Next f

MsgBox st

End Sub