ok, it is not so shocking knowing the application.

I am in the process of moving to Quark 6.5 ( I know it is a couple of 
versions old) from v3 and v4. It runs on the Intel machines where v3 or 
v4 do not.

While testing my scripts, I noticed that in versions 3 and 4 if two 
text boxes on the page had the same name, both would be filled in.

In 6.5, it is only the top most text box that gets populated.

If I take and manually select the other box and bring it to the top, 
and rerun the script, that text box gets the text.

Is there a way to get both filled in without changing one of the names?

tell application "QuarkXpress"
   tell document "test.qxd"
     set paragraph 1 of text box "sample.txt" to "hello world"
   end tell
end tell

I have all the code in a script library that allows me to pass in the 
layout name, paragraph, text box name and the text. If I need to start 
to jump through hoops to handle this, then I need to know what to test 
for to catch the 2+ text boxes with the same names.

Thanks

Lloyd Butler
Manager of Product Execution
The Weather Network