Simple Quark question

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#1

I am working on a script which imports text from word documents. The user selects the documents and they are placed in a Quark template and the user is propmpted to select another. I want to place a string before the imported text. However, when I try this:

set theText to choose file with prompt "Please select the first file."
set text of text box 3 of page 1 to "some words" & theText

it places “some words” and the file path (NOT the file’s contents) into the quark document. how do I tell it to place theText’s contents into the document? Thanks, Don

#2

: set theText to choose file with prompt “Please
: select the first file.”
try
set theText to text returned of (choose file with prompt “Please…”)
–tet

#3

: try
: set theText to text returned of (choose file with prompt
: “Please…”)
: --tet

That’s a good idea, but when I tried it I received an error: “can’t make some data into the expected type” with “text returned” highlighted in the script. Maybe because it’s a styled Word file? --Don