[vb] Testing for item existence

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From: Jonathan Fisher
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:21

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its a while since i scripted vb...

want to check and see if any pars exist within a textframe

so i sort of want:

If myTextFrame.Paragraphs.Item(1)is nothing then

Msgbox ("add some text")

end if

however i can't find the syntax for this...

how can i test for the existence of paragraphs?

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