InDesign running slow. Spinning ball constantly appearing.

I have this problem occasionally. When clearing the cache and preferences don't work, it's seems to be caused by:

1. Importing a glitch from MS Word—fix is to completely clear all previous formatting

2. Tables, anchored graphics that don't fit into the text box size and cause pages to reflow

I noticed that InDesign created a AdobeFnt22.lst file for the document I was working in. The default program for this file was Suitcase, which I do not have. I was thinking that it is looking for that program to move forward with my type changes. So I changed the file to open with FontBase and there is a much shorter hanging ball of death when I make the type changes. From seeming like forever to now just a few rolls before the cursor comes back. 

Hello @Sjstoyle;
Check in your Indesing menu:
Type / Find replace font;
Clean up wathever font you DONT use, like Minion or Myriad; That should speed up 

And fast forward to July 2020 where I STILL fight with the spinning beach ball. Myriad updates and indd is STILL running slow and making me FORCE QUIT multiple times a day. I've changed preferences, I've reinstalled, I've force quit, I've said voodoo prayers and nothing.

Indesign Spinning wheel of death fix:
In Indesign, in the top menu, go to Type / Suitcase Fusion / Suitcase fusion auto-activation preferences
Then uncheck the «activate fonts in embedded objects.

I have cured this endless beachball/slow running problem by turning off wifi on my iMac! As everything connects via ethernet I really don't know why I had it turned on. Seems almost too ridiculous to have worked but the problem has completely vanished. I'm on the latest versions of MacOS and InDesign. I really hope this might help you!

After InDesign driving me so crazy with spinning beach ball hang ups for the past 2 years that I've actually rebuilt files in Illustrator and even in MS Word to avoid having to use it, I've FINALLY found a fix... well... sort of.  I had tried ALL of the recommendations like trashing prefs, etc... none of which worked for more than a few moves before the friggin' beach ball started spinning again. What FINALLY works is turning off WIFI, which unfortunately disconnects me from the Web, making multi-tasking impossible, of course — no email, etc. — but it DOES let InDesign actually opertae as it is supposed to — and used to — before CC 2019, so I can actually get something done.  Not ideal, but definitely helpful.

Thanks! That helped.

I paused the syncing in creative cloud and if fixed my problem. Creative Cloud > Settings > Syncing > Pause Syncing

Hi. I've just discovered that if you change the colour PREFS from LG UltraFine to Apple RGB in the display settings, all works brilliant. Seems that there is an issue with Adobe's code with LG UltraFine monitors. Pass this on please.