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in 6.5... 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 ...

Yeah, that would be the issue. Thanks!

Can I get a hand here? Figuring out XPress tag importing. Been using the excellent RTF-to-XPress tag applescripts, from www.puntspatie.nl I would like to, after getting the RTF converted to plain text, switch fake bolds to a true bold font (in this case AGaramond Semibold). In the Tex-Edit script, I want to change this code (which will give me ...

Okay, I got this to work:    set TableID to uniqueID of first table box whose selected is true     tell table box id TableID      do whatever   Thanks to both of you guys!!!    (written from home, on FireFox)  

Emma, (sorry, no FireFox on this Mac) Can you post what you're using? I'm not specfifying table box 1 in the code that's erroring. I'm curious ...

Jeff, Has that worked for you? I'm in 6.5, and it's not returning anything. I get "Can't get height of bounds of table box 1 of document 1 whose selected = true" Here's the code: tell document 1 of application "QuarkXPress" activate --store current units set {OldHor, OldVert} to {horizontal ...

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be right back... then again, maybe we should tell people to go to "the other place" for my results...

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Hi Em, The trick is, I want to modify each of the boxes in the chain, as well as the text. for instance, I'd like to make the height of each box conform to the longest one in the chain. See this image below: I think maybe I need to do it through a loop, but not even sure...