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BigEnd
Inspiring
July 16, 2018
Answered

Indesign crashes when attemption to copy table or portion of table

  • July 16, 2018
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Hi,

Just today InDesign crashed every time I select a table or portion of table and then do 'Edit, Copy'.  I've tried saving as .idml, trashing preference, different tables, different indesign files.  All to no avail.

Any thoughts?

InDesign CC 13.1 x64 on Windows 10

    Correct answer BigEnd

    I got around to uninstalling and reinstalling InDesign today and everything is ok now.  I can select part or all of a table and copy and it doesn't crash. 

    Martin.

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    BigEndAuthorCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    July 17, 2018

    I got around to uninstalling and reinstalling InDesign today and everything is ok now.  I can select part or all of a table and copy and it doesn't crash. 

    Martin.

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      tysonbrazy
      Participant
      May 21, 2025

      Happens to be my issue today 😑
      It was fine last week when performing this operation but now, disasterous!

      Anubhav M
      Community Manager
      Anubhav MCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      May 21, 2025

      Hello @tysonbrazy,

      Could you share more details, like the version of the OS/InDesign installed, and this happens when working with specific files or files from a particular folder location, so I can better assist you?

      Also, try running InDesign under Safe Mode (Windows / macOS) and share your observations.

      Looking forward to hearing from you.

      Anubhav

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      LaubenderCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 16, 2018

      Hi BigEnd ,

      are there any graphic cells in the table where you managed to have any text frames inside?

      That would be a recipe for a definite crash if the table or a part of the table is copy/pasted.

      If your InDesign already crashes on the copy command it would be something else.

      Maybe a corrupt font.

      Regards,
      Uwe

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      BigEndAuthor
      Inspiring
      July 16, 2018

      No graphic cells.  Yes it crashes on the copy command but only with table cells selected.

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      LaubenderCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 16, 2018

      Will it crash, if just the text is selected and not the cell?

      Regards,
      Uwe

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