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January 31, 2024
Question

Copy/paste into story editor causing crash

  • January 31, 2024
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Every time I paste directly into a story editor window, InDesign program crashes. This happens regardless of whether I'm copying in text content from an outside source (unformatted text), or if I'm copying from another InDesign document (using Paste without Formatting). I've been having this problem for awhile, must have happened now while working in a dozen different documents. This is having a lot of impact on my working efficiently as I have for many years used the story editor tool frequently to collect and edit text within frames.

 

Running InDesign 19.1 on a macOS 14.2.1 -- both system and software are set update to latest versions automatically. 

 

Anyone else having this problem?

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Steve Werner
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 8, 2024

I'm wondering if this is fixed in InDesign 2024 19.2? In the list of fixes in 19.2 it mentioned problems pasting text into the Review panel.

 

19.2 hasn't been released yet in the United States.

Steve Werner
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 7, 2024

It may indeed be an InDesign bug! I just tested copying from an InDesign file into the Story Editor (pasting with Unformatted Text) and it crashed. This happened to me with InDesign 2024 (19.1) and Sonoma 14.3.

 

However, pasting a Text file from TextEdit on the same file worked successfully.

 

BobLevine
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 31, 2024

Latest Mac update is 14.3.

Participant
January 31, 2024
So it is. I'll install the update and see if this problem persists. Thanks.
Rishabh_Tiwari
Legend
February 7, 2024

Hi,

 

Sorry to hear about the trouble. Please try the suggestions shared by Bob and if you still need assistance, you can also try the suggestions shared here. Let us know how it goes.

 

Thanks

Rishabh