Please Adobe stop with the trash your prefs to fix the problem - IT DOESN"T FIX THE PROBLEM, hire a programmer that can fix it.  Just stop with the copy and paste "trash the prefs" answer.  The more I hear this stupid answer the closer I get to buying Quark.  Hey Quark - you have a great opportunity to win back some ex-users, where's your Marketing to get these un-happy users back, IDN maybe 1/2 off a new subscription OR SOMETHING better than what Adobe is putting out there, freaking horrible, but Adobe doesn't care and that's sad. ... View more

THAT IS NOT THE CORRECT ANSWER - I do not have or use Extensis Suitcase.  And yes I get that freaking spinning beach ball ALL THE TIME, when working on InDesign Documents that have lots of TABLES (the more, the slower).  For instance, I am currently working on 2 large InDesign Documents, 1 is a 250+ product catalog with a few tables, lots of text frames and linked images (I have been a user for 25+ years), it's large yes, some slowness does occur (not much), but then I have another large Manual with about 175 pages that use TABLES (and a lot of them, at least 1 per page, sometimes 2-3) - which makes my InDesign document STUPID SLOW, everytime I select (click) on any table in the document, and I mean any, that freaking spinning beach ball just freezes EVERYTHING for a few seconds, SLOWS my process down considerably, like painfully slow and I want to stick my fist through my iMac.  I'm not getting into what type of iMac, how much Memory (RAM), plenty of disc space, everything up-to-date, can't tell you how many times I've trashed prefs, and did everything everyone has mentioned, NOTHING WORKS except removing or NOT USING tables.  And those of use who did use Quark (man they dropped the ball when InDesign came on-board) such a good program, terrible managment of their application, going back now isn't even an option, I mean switching the first time from Quark to InDesign was painful, I'm not going through that again and Adobe knows it. Kinda stuck, and that really burns me.  Get on board Adobe InDesign and fix your application that I HAVE TO PAY A MONTHLY RENTAL FEE to use and it doesn't work. Seriously I would have switched long ago if it wasn't such a big pain-in-the-ass task. Just freaking burns me!! ... View more

What worked for you, switching back to Quark? ... View more