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• • March 22, 2011 at 10:06 am #59036
    bundschuh

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    Hey,

    I'm wondering if there's a simple solution to my problem. I have a long document, which seems to be getting longer, so I might have to turn it into a book. I have to create it for someone that can barely use InDesign. Ideally she wants to just be able to open the document, change some text and close.

    I have a list of words that whenever they appear they have to be italicized. I thought making an italic character style then adding the words in as grep styles would be the best option, as this person always applies inconsistent local formatting. That way she can focus on just updating the text. This worked well at first but now the document is extremely slow. There are no graphics, it's all just black text. I've changed the display performance and turned off anything that can slow InDesign down.

    Any suggestions?

  • March 22, 2011 at 10:21 am #59038
    David Blatner

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    A simple grep style like that should not be slowing down InDesign. I've never seen that. You have tried quitting InDesign and relaunching?

    If it's mostly text, there should be no reason to break up the document into multiple docs in a book panel.

  • March 22, 2011 at 10:29 am #59039
    bundschuh

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    I've tried relaunching InDesign over and over and restarting the computer. The computer is only a couple months old and is extremely fast. I'm confident it's not the computer. But if it is the computer, I can't tell that to the ITS department. :)

    The only thing that seems to work is when I delete a the styles that I've added the grep styles to.

  • March 23, 2011 at 6:28 am #59053
    John McKercher

    Member

    I've had this happen to me. I regularly work with 2-300 page documents that include lots of images, captions, tables, whatever. And it always seemed to me that if I added Grep styles into a couple of styles things slowed down. The minute I got rid of the styles by doing a search and applying the style things speeded up. It was as if everytime I tried to make a correction such as inserting some text the program had to search again for where the styles needed to get applied because all the text had shifted. Consequently I've used the feature sparingly on long documents. Too bad, it's a nice feature.

    And this is on a fast machine with lots of RAM.

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