InDesign: How can I view markup to find and cure a glitch?

[m_r_hunter]

Working on a large book in InDesign. A paragraph has some sort of glitch or curruption preventing me from making any sort of change to that paragraph only. Crashes when I try to add index anchors, try to italicize, try to make superscript.

No problem visible in "story editor." Is there a way to view markup to see if something in there? Just one paragraph and its footnotes in a 30-page chapter! So frustrating! Help!

[Steve Werner]

Try saving the file (or the chapter if you've used InDesign's Book feature) as IDML. File > Save As > InDesign CS4 or later [IDML]). Then reopen up the IDML file which may remove corruption.

[m_r_hunter]

"Save as" offers no file options other than as InDesign or InDesign template. Tried adding extension IDML to no avail.

and BTW, when I say "crashes" I mean freezes.

[m_r_hunter · Accepted solution]

BTW, it was "Export" as IDML, not "Save As." Woke up thinking that this morning and it did work, thanks.