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

Hurraaay ! I am impressed with this… It saves me a lot of formating. I usually bring one article in a text frame, format it, apply style to title and body text and then I want to put the body text in 2 or 3 columns – of course the title outside the box. So I made 2 scripts with obvious shortcuts: alt+2 and alt+3: I changed my mind, i want the old frame in columns: 2 or 3 accordingly.

I expected problems if I have inset to the original box or a tint. There were no problems…

I tried it with threaded text frames, running the script for the first in the chain (I wouldn't use it for the second) – there were no problems. I only have to be careful to not have overflow in the box – it should be my next step in fixing…

In my earlier post I was talking of VBA as Visual Basic for Applications – the one that ships with word or coreldraw. Both these applications have the ability to record actions and offer tremendous amount of help to total beginners in scripting. My only hope is adobe will improve a lot the help with scripting in CS5.