TextFrames.Count

Property Count As Long

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

The Count property returns a read-only value.

The following VBA example links frames of paragraph text and displays the number of frames in the collection.

Sub Test()

Dim d As Document

Dim s As Shape

Dim s1 As Shape

Dim s2 As Shape

Dim t As Text

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

MsgBox "The number of frames in the collection is " & t.Frames.Count

End Sub