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TextFrame.BreakForwardLink Method

Word Developer Reference

Breaks the forward link for the specified text frame, if such a link exists.

Syntax

expression.BreakForwardLink

expression   Required. A variable that represents a TextFrame object.

Remarks

Applying this method to a shape in the middle of a chain of shapes with linked text frames will break the chain, leaving two sets of linked shapes. All of the text, however, will remain in the first series of linked shapes.

Example

This example creates a new document adds a chain of three linked text boxes to it, and then breaks the link after the second text box.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Dim shapeTextbox1 As Shape
Dim shapeTextbox2 As Shape
Dim shapeTextbox3 As Shape

Documents.Add


Set shapeTextbox1 = ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddTextbox _
(Orientation:=msoTextOrientationHorizontal, _
Left:=InchesToPoints(1.5), _
Top:=InchesToPoints(0.5), _
Width:=InchesToPoints(1), _
Height:=InchesToPoints(0.5))
shapeTextbox1.TextFrame.TextRange = "This is some text. " _
& "This is some more text. This is even more text."


Set shapeTextbox2 = ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddTextbox _
(Orientation:=msoTextOrientationHorizontal, _
Left:=InchesToPoints(1.5), _
Top:=InchesToPoints(1.5), _
Width:=InchesToPoints(1), _
Height:=InchesToPoints(0.5))


Set shapeTextbox3 = ActiveDocument.Shapes.AddTextbox _
(Orientation:=msoTextOrientationHorizontal, _
Left:=InchesToPoints(1.5), _
Top:=InchesToPoints(2.5), _
Width:=InchesToPoints(1), _
Height:=InchesToPoints(0.5))


shapeTextbox1.TextFrame.Next = shapeTextbox2.TextFrame
shapeTextbox2.TextFrame.Next = shapeTextbox3.TextFrame
MsgBox "Textboxes 1, 2, and 3 are linked."
shapeTextbox2.TextFrame.BreakForwardLink

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