Formatting text causes duplicate text

[lindac43639193]

I am working in InDesign CC 2019 and I'm working on a large document (just over 100 pages). I am almost finished with the project and am doing some final tweaking and proofing, but a new problem has arisen. When I go in and format text, for instance make something italic, whether it is with character styles or by changing in the character tab, the type selected plus more type surrounding it becomes duplicated. So the correct formatting is on top of the old formatting. This has happened in the past but would go away when I changed the view. This time it doesn't go away. I tried clearing InDesign cache but that didn't correct the problem. Any ideas about what I should do? I'm working under a deadline!! Yikes!

My image below shows the type that has been reformatted to be in italics and is showing as a duplicate.

Thanks,

Linda 

[Jongware]

The most logical cause would be that you have a copy of that text frame on top of it. Can you check that?

[lindac43639193]

No, I don't have duplicate frames.

[Barb Binder]

Hi Linda:

Next try disabling GPU Performance.

~Barb

[lindac43639193 · Accepted solution]

I've gotten tech support on this, my document has become corrupted. I need to copy it over to a new file. (Sigh!)

[jane-e]

lindac43639193  wrote

my document has become corrupted.

You can sent the file to Adobe at this email address:

corrupt_indesign_docs@adobe.com

If the file is larger than 10 Mb, you can zip (and password protect) the file and upload to Creative Cloud account (or Dropbox) and email the document link.

~Jane

[renaemp]

You could try saving it as an idml. That might flush out the problem and save you some time.

[lindac43639193]

I tried that and it didn't work. Thanks though. I was able to fix it by replacing the text on the offending page with the original text and then was able to reformat! Just glad I didn't have to replace the whole thing.

[Barb Binder]

Hi Linda:

Duplicate frames or that you need to disable GPU Performance. Click the rocket ship icon on the Application bar.

~Barb