Endnotes creating indesign crash?

[Linda5C94]

Hi -- I'm working on a book project and every time I place a word doc in a text box (instead of copying and pasting, to keep formatting and footnotes), InDesign crashes immediately. I have the most up to date version from creative cloud. It's completely stopping my ability to do anything at all. HELP> 

I accidentally marked this answered correctly, and now I can't undo that. I'm thinking this has something to do with endnotes. They seem to be the problem. 

[Eugene Tyson]

It must be something in the word doc.

Try copying the text in the word doc to a new document in Word. 

If that doesn't work. 

Try copying parts of the Word doc to a new document - for instance copy page 1 of the word doc to a new word doc. 

Try placing that, if that works, then try copying all of the next page etc.

[Linda5C94]

Hi,

Right now I can't even DELETE the offending endnotes in my indesign document. I delete all the text from that section, and the endnotes are still there. I go to delete the endnotes -- the text box, the content, even the whole page -- and the program crashes. I can't even get back to the place before I had the problem so I can work on an alternative solution. Any chance someone could call me and walk me through some help here??