Reply To: Do Long Tables Make InDesign Crash?

I’ve regularly dealt with tables of up to and over the 10,000-row limit, with a single table running to over 100 pages in InDesign, with only very rare crashes (and those not obviously related to the table structure). Predominantly CS3 and CS4 though (yes, another client who sticks with what works rather than upgrade pointlessly).
The content arrives as tagged text (para styles already set), and is converted to a table in InDesign, with table and cell styles then applied afterwards. Also many cells are manually merged afterwards. If there are more than 10,000 rows in the imported text, it still makes a table successfully, but you can’t then add (insert) any more rows.
Applying a style or a cell attribute to a whole column of a very large table can take many minutes, but it does it reliably.
The only difference I can see from the case above is that these are all in single-column frames.
As for Word and large documents/tables, I’ve had way more crashing problems there.
Chris.