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• • November 10, 2016 at 12:00 pm #89664
    Shawn Girsberger

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    I’ve been using ID CC 2017 for less than a week now and have just encountered this issue.

    I opened an ID document that I created earlier this year (7/28) in CC 2015 and converted it to CC 2017.

    I selected all of the old text in the main story frame and deleted it.

    I placed and flowed in text from a Word document that has a couple of simple tables. Applied my existing style tags to the text throughout.

    Went to create a table style to format the tables. I selected a table and clicked the “Create new style” button on the Table Styles panel. I did not edit any settings at this time.

    With the table still selected, I noticed there was a plus by the name “Table Style 1.” So, I option-clicked to clear any overrides.

    InDesign crashed.

    After the application reopened, I tried again to create and then edit the new table style, but with a different table selected.

    InDesign crashed again.

    I saved the file as .idml, opened it, saved it, tried again. Another crash.

    Rebuilt preferences. Another crash.

    Copied the unformatted table to a clean document, selected it, and attempted to create a table style by choosing “New Table Style” from the flyout menu. I was able to create the style, but when I even hovered over the plus sign that was present, InDesign crashed.

    Any ideas about this? I seem to remember issues like this in earlier versions of InDesign, before CC. I hope it’s something that can be fixed. If anyone has any suggestions, I’m all ears. Yes, I did run Font Doctor 10.2.3 to see if this was a result of font corruption. All was cool.

  • November 10, 2016 at 4:11 pm #89666
    Dwayne Harris

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    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.

  • November 10, 2016 at 8:17 pm #89670
    Shawn Girsberger

    Member

    That’s what I would have done, except that I created and used this design just a few months ago, and have been adapting the common elements for a new project in CC 2017. My attempt to create a table style has been the only problem.

    My workaround is to simply use the cell styles I had already created to format the rows. Technically, I don’t need to create the table style; I was just doing it out of habit. And with the number of projects that always show up at this time of year, the simple solution is to use the cell styles. The tables are not heavily formatted. Not an elegant solution, but one that does work.

    Hope your designer tells you when a file is buggy beforehand from now on!

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