Reply To: InDesign crashes when attempt made to edit table style

Wow–that is weird, but it sounds like you trouble shooted it okay. I really don’t have any suggestions as sometimes an ID file will just go wacky for no rhyme or reason that we can figure you.

I had a job a few weeks ago. I was a designer sample for a book I was going to page. What I normally do is tweak their file as many of the designers I work with don’t use “keep with” options, or allow unlimited hyphenation, etc.

Well, every time I opened a style sheet to edit it, ID would crash. I could open it, but if I clicked on “basic” or “advanced” or anything, crash.

So I had to create a new document and I imported the style sheets to that. And it worked! I still had to recreate the master pages and running heads and stuff, but at least I could use the style sheets.

Oh–and I couldn’t export that designer file as IDML. InDesign would crash every time I tried.

The the designer emails a few hours later and says “by the way, I think the file is corrupt and I forgot to tell you.”

Anyway–good luck with that file. I’m thinking you will have to recreate the table.