Well, reading about your trick I remembered myself when I used for the first time XData Xtension from Em Software.
For a windows user it's impossible to use Applescript, that's why I remembered another post with "wishes" for a further version of Quark: why not being able to use .txt or .csv files (table-formatted information) for variable data, similar to Automation > Data Merge from InDesign?
Despite the fact that I'm a constant user of Quark, often I have to use ID for some urgent jobs from my clients. Last month, one of them asked me to make for him 600 personalised letters in two hours. I could, but using ID, not Quark.
Every day is a good day to learn something new.
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