Why is adding Cross references is so slow?

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February 17, 2025
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Hi all,

i have a 84 page document. i want to add some cross references but it's so extremely slow. I takes like 30 seconds to load the pop-up to add the cross refenrence. any ideas why this is so slow and what i can do to fix this?

thanks

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

That sounds too long a wait, even though everyone notes that doing cross-references is one of the slow-downs of InDesign.

Since the 20.1 version has so much buggies, have you considered rolling back to 20.0.1 to see if that changes the situation?

And of course, here is a link to a compendium of troubleshooting you can experiment with to see if anything helps:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/reset-indesign-preferences-and-other-troubleshooting/td-p/11990234

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Tell us about your InDesign version number.

And your operating system and number and patch?

Is your 84-pages flowing and threading throughout those 84 pages?

Are you using any complicated GREP formatting?

Mike Witherell

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Bart Bossuyt - GBLAuthor

Participating Frequently

V 20.1

Sequoia 15.3

no text flow

No complicated grep.

Lots of textframes, lots of imageframes.

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