Indesign crashing when trying to reset tabs.

[ciarachristine]

Hello.

Yesterday I was finishing a book and began the TOC tab process. As I was inserting the tabs and page numbers, Indesign started to crash and I had to force quit the program a few times. I searched here on the forums and found a post a few years ago on a similar (yet not the same) problem.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled, cleared all my settings, and the issue is still occurring.

I am on Mavericks OS and running Indesign CC (2017).

Anyone have an idea of what is going on? It's quite frustrating!! Thank you!

[winterm · Accepted solution]

Some people report, this helps in similar situations with ID2017 on Mac:

Navigate to Preference->Advance Type -> Type Contextual Controls and disable the preference “Show for Character Alternates, Fractions, Ordinals and Ligatures”.

For now, it's a good idea to disable "Show Adornment on Text Selection/Text Frame for more Type controls", too.

[ciarachristine]

That's it! Thanks so much!!

[winterm]

Left some errors in a path (Preferences, Advanced), sorry for that and glad you've sorted it out.