Mark, Thanks I tried that one, and got QuarkXPress got an error: Can't set paragraph 1 of every text box of document 1 whose name = "sample.txt" to "hello" It seems there is some sort of conversion error as it has an '=' after name instead of 'is'. It gives you the same error if you put in the wrong text box name, so I suspect the 'whose' is broken. Then I tried "contains" instead of 'is" and it still tosses an error, but it knows I had asked for 'contains' Then I tried 'begins with" and it tosses an error with "starts with". I guess I will just need to change the names of the text boxes so that there are no duplicates. Lloyd > From: Mark Lively <[log in to unmask]> > > On Jan 17, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Lloyd Butler wrote: > >> 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" >> > Set paragraph 1 of every text box whose name is "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. > > I am surprised that 3 and 4 didn't error on you. >