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Without using System Events,is it possible to select menu items which are submenu items?

i.e. this works for "Print"
   select menu item 17 of menu "File"

But if I want to select a submenu item, say menu item 1 of "Export", how would I code that?

None of these work:
   select menu item 1 of menu "Export"
   select menu item 1 of menu "Export" of menu "File"
   select menu item 1 of menu item "Export" of menu "File"

 The following works for me:

001   tell application "QuarkXPress Passport 6.x"
002      activate
003      set DocName to name of document 1
004      tell document DocName
005         tell me to doMenu_QX("File", "Save Page as EPS...", "")
006      end tell
007   end tell

008   on doMenu_QX(This_Menu, First_Level, Second_Level)
009      tell application "QuarkXPress Passport 6.x"
010         try
011            if Second_Level is "" then
012               select menu item First_Level of menu This_Menu
013            else
014               select menu item Second_Level of menu item First_Level of menu This_Menu
015            end if
016         on error errMsg number errNum
017            display dialog ("An error " & errNum & " has occured" & return & return & errMsg) with icon stop
018         end try
019      end tell
020   end doMenu_QX

Notes: • The line numbers included with this script are there to aid future discussions. In order to use this script, you will have to strip all of them.

The problem I see with your command is that the "Export" menu has submenus of its own ("HTML..." and "Layout as PDF...") which for some reason do not appear in the dictionary structure.

HTH