Indesign 2023 crashing for random actions

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December 15, 2022
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I have text box that has two columns and it crashes all the time I want to do stuff. I style table with table style, crash. Autoflow text to next pages, crash.

I save it to IDML. Indesign 2022 say it cannot open .... indd while it is opening IDML and recomends me to save as IDML. It cannot create IDML, and cant handle longer texts. I basically have no way out.

I choose to convert it with Indesign 2022. Who knows what losses occured, but still same crashes.
Pretty much unusable on book design.

I have heard that if using columns in text frames it will be slow. I already split the book into 20 page pieces. If it cannot handle tables in this configuration then there should be warning. "Pleaso do not use this program this and this way."

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HARSHIKA_VERMA

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Hi @Sorontar,

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Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Did you try exporting to IDML and then re-opening the IDML and save-as to INDD? Sometimes this cures internal file corruption.

Mike Witherell

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SorontarAuthor

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Today I had no problems with crashing at all. I did some research and it seems to be that at some point there are so many rules that Indesign has to calculate for displaying the file (lot of paragraph styles and rules and so on). With complicated design rules there could happen some contradiction that Indesign does not know how to solve.
On the one hand it sounds plausible but on the other it does not make sense. Indesign is meant for beautiful design and not making some very simple Word-like layouts. Some specific setting or attribute from importing is probably to blame, but it is really hard to find out.

Maybe after few crashes I should clean the file with IDML because errors from crashing may stack up.

Thanks for trying to help!

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

There is no problems with using columns and tables.

Here are some troubleshooting ideas you can try.

Mike Witherell

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