How to see column width?

[Karen Robbins]

Oh, that might be good... will try when we upgrade very shortly 
(still on FM 9).

Thanks,
K

At 2:21 PM -0400 10/8/12, Rick Quatro wrote:
>Hi Karen,
>
>I think Richard's formula is better because I did not account for more than
>2 columns. Or, if you have FrameMaker 10 or above, you can put your cursor
>in a paragraph in the column and run the snippet below:
>
>#target framemaker
>var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
>var pgf = doc.TextSelection.beg.obj;
>var width = pgf.InTextObj.Width;
>alert ((width / 65536) + ' points or ' + (width / 65536 / 72) + ' inches');
>
>Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very
>much.
>
>Rick
>
>Rick Quatro
>Carmen Publishing Inc.
>585-283-5045
>rick at frameexpert.com
>
>
>
>
>Hi Framers,
>
>One of our master page layouts got nudged so that a column was very slightly
>narrower than it should be (probably an accidental frame-handle grab). We
>found this out by hand-measuring print output.
>
>By selecting the Object Properties item from the Graphics menu, I can see
>the width and height of a text frame, the number of columns it contains, and
>the gap between those columns, in the Customize Text Frame dialog. I could
>presume that if those items are correct, theoretically the column width is
>correct. But where can I see the actual width of the columns to confirm it?
>
>Thanks,
>Karen
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