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Hi Wolfgang--

We'll start with the last question first: to make a layer active, you set the ActiveLayer property of the ActiveWindow to a reference to that layer.

The ItemLayer property of a page item(like a text frame) controls the layer of the page item. The easiest way to make one layer have the same content as another is to duplciate each item, then set the ItemLayer property of the duplicated items to a reference to the layer you want to move them to.

Here's an example that demonstrates both answers:



Dim myInDesign As InDesign.Application 
Set myInDesign = CreateObject("InDesign.Application.2.0") 
Set myDocument = myInDesign.Documents.Add 
Set myPage = myDocument.Pages.Item(1) 
Set myTextFrame = myPage.TextFrames.Add 
myTextFrame.GeometricBounds = Array("6p", "6p", "24p", "24p") 
myTextFrame.ParentStory.Tables.Add 
Set myDefaultLayer = myDocument.Layers.Item(1) 
Set myNewLayer = myDocument.Layers.Add 
Set myNewTextFrame = myTextFrame.Duplicate 
myNewTextFrame.ItemLayer = myNewLayer 
Rem Now make the new layer active 
myInDesign.ActiveWindow.ActiveLayer = myNewLayer 
Rem Hide the original layer 
myDefaultLayer.Visible = False 




Thanks,

Ole