Reply To: Do Long Tables Make InDesign Crash?

I had the same problem with tables, the longer they become, the more “unstable” they are. Our problem came from the fact that lots of cells had text which had a style with ‘no hyphenation’ (several languages together, so difficult to set a dict). Merged cells from excel give problems too, they get unmerged when placed. Hidden cells, same problem, the appear in CC.
I don’t think Word is the solution, but Excel does a wonderful job. It takes time, but I must admit that it’s better than CC for tables.
Don’t forget that CC isn’t a “tables” program, it does a lot, but not all. It’s sometimes better to use a specific program to create something, make a pdf and import this file into Indesign. Changes are made in the original program, update the pdf and update the Indesign file.
Do you start the tables from scratch? Import from another application? No style or char style problems?