//Hello! This script looks at the object you've currently got selected, and if it's a text frame, it increases the amount of columns in that frame by one. //Useful for: quickly going back and forth between column layouts when setting out images etc. var doc = app.activeDocument; try { var textFrame = app.activeDocument.selection[0]; var preferences = textFrame.textFramePreferences; preferences.textColumnCount = preferences.textColumnCount + 1; } catch (e) { alert(e); }