Reply To: can you add color to the columns in a text frame in CS6

After playing around with this for a while, I had another idea and remembered another script, Convert Multicolumn Text Frames to Individual Text Frames: https://creativepro.com/con…..script.php

Be sure to grab the CS5 version for CS5 and later.

You'll be able to set up your 10 column text frame as desired, run the script to create 10 individual text frames of threaded text, then apply color to each text frame. I did notice that running the script removed any text insets and you may need to adjust for that–perhaps by adding a small stroke color matching the fill and aligned to the outside of the text box.