Reply To: Split text into separate non-threaded frames?

Or adobe wants only smart intelligent people to script …

They might — or they might want to scare off everyone (see their implementation of what should have been a simple programmer's editor…). I disliked their complicated Help system so much I rewrote it in friendly HTML, and since it allows backtracking from one object to another, I found this with relative ease:

newframe is a TextFrame, so entered that in Search. Nothing useful there on columns, but I noticed TextFramePreferences (Adobe's preferred way of adding yet even more properties to objects). Clicked that, found this: textColumnCount. TextFramePreferences is used as a property value for a few things, and one of them is TextFrame.textFramePreferences. Adding all together, I think you can safely say:

newframe.textFramePreferences.textColumnCount = 1;

at any place you find convenient.

By the way, yes! I was lazy, putting in that Fit Frame quick hack, and your solution is way better! It now works the way I envisioned it, 'cutting' right through the frame and leaving everything else intact.