Conditional Text formatting "spreads" when I save as IDML.;

[jeanne_c]

I've got a 400-page document, one spread. There are several instances where I've applied a condition to one word or sentence. Since my INDD file is so large, I saved it as IDML to clean it up. When I resaved the IDML as INDD, the condition had been applied to several pages following a word or sentence that was conditional. It did do it everywhere, just a few places.  

I searched for the condition and reset things to unconditional, but I'd like to figure out why it happens, and maybe not have it happen again.

[jeanne_c]

It did NOT do it everywhere.

[Willi Adelberger]

Did you work with paragraph and character styles?

[jeanne_c]

I used paragraph styles. I applied the conditional tags manually.

[BobLevine]

IDML is not a be all end all for fixing things. If all you wanted to do was shrink up the INDD file a bit, use the file>save as command instead.

[Joel Cherney]

Since my INDD file is so large, I saved it as IDML to clean it up. When I resaved the IDML as INDD, the condition had been applied to several pages following a word or sentence that was conditional. It did do it everywhere, just a few places.  

While Bob is correct in the narrow sense - you don't techincally need to run through IDML in order to reduce file size - InDesign is not Functioning As Designed, I think, if it's changing how your conditions are applied when being run through IDML. 

Can you share the document? Or can you create a stand-in document that recreates this issue? If it's a bug that can be recreated in a second document, then it's something that the InDesign development team is going to want to know about. If it's something unique about your 400-page document, which we cannot recreate in a separate document, then we might be able to figure out what went wrong with your document, but I doubt that it'd be worth a bug report. 

[jeanne_c]

The document is proprietary. Let me see if I can recreate it.

[davecourtemanche]

Just a side note regarding file bloat - this might be a good time to explore the book function of ID. I find it so much handier for long documents.