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From: bank5
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:24

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My page has multiple text frames and rectangle frames. I would like to use JavaScript to fill the frames, but am having trouble refrencing the exact frame that I want.

For example, using something like:

app.activeDocument.textFrames.item(0).contents = 'First Text Frame';

won't select the first (or top-left) text frame on the page.

Does anyone how I can do this? Can I label each textFrame and them reference them by

textFrames.item('FirstTextFrame').contents = 'First Text Frame';

I'm new to InDesign so thanks for any help!

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