Crash after crash when editing/pasting Chinese text (ID CC2015, High Sierra)

Question

Hi, can anyone help me? I'm trying more and more desperately to paste some chinese text from a Word document into an ID document and ID keeps crashing all the time. Sometimes I can get a handful of words in it but then it crashes again when I try to do such fancy things as deleting one single character or so.

I use InDesign CC2015 and MacOS High Sierra (10.13.4)

What I have tried already (without success):

-- Use an older version of Word
-- Copy/paste text in Text Wrangler before pasting in ID

-- Save text as "text only" (txt) format before pasting

-- Save ID document as .idml to "clean it up"

-- choose another chinese font in Word before pasting

... none of this worked!

Please help! Thank you ...

Tatjana Breitenstein LU · Accepted Answer

Thanks for your ideas.

It must have been something in the text itself. I now put it in passage after passage and it only crashed when I pasted the very last character (which I could replace). Very strange.

Anyway, I have the entire text in my ID document now and InDesign is still alive and kicking.

There are strange things happening in this world ;-)

Bill Silbert · Answer

Have you tried doing a similar operation using a different word file? If you don't have a problem with the different file then the difficulty would be narrowed down to your original Word file being corrupt.

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