Hi Scott,

I know it’s been years, so you probably definitely moved on from that, but I was having the same problem and Googled for an answer. Basically, your post is the only thing I found… and no answer!

Anyhow, I started playing with my text, and it was odd, because I was doing (what I thought was) exactly the same thing as in another document *where I didn’t have that problem*, but then I realized one thing… One of my habits, that for some reason I had not done in this new document…

I changed the composer to “World-Ready Paragraph Composer” as I do in all my documents (I don’t need it at the office, but I also use InDesign at home for astronomy-related stuff, and as there are a lot of Greek letters used in astronomy, and sometimes references to Arabic texts, I find it’s handy for astronomy). So, anyhow… Switching the composer to “World-Ready Paragraph Composer” made the text with two cross-references fit in the (narrow) cell. Bingo!

Now, don’t ask me *why* that is the case!

Regards,

Pierre