ID CS4 slow after pasting text from MS...

Each time I paste text from a Word document into my ID CS4 document, ID begins to run very slowly. I can't even type properly. Has anyone else seen this?

I have fixed this problem by copying all the text and pasting in the a new document (I thought the document was possibly corrupted). This fixed the problem, but it has happened multiple times now. Much of my information comes from engineers' word documents, so this is not convenient.

ID CS4 slow after pasting text from MS...

I think this may have been addressed in the 6.0.3 update, but I haven't been paying too much attention to exactly which Word problems are which -- they all seem to be for versions after Word 2000 when I stopped upgrading.

Peter

ID CS4 slow after pasting text from MS...

I did perform the most recent update. I thought the update might fix it, too, but this problem happened both before and after the update.

What about if you Edit %26gt; Paste without Formatting?

Ken

Paste without formatting is not actually an option when pasting in from Word. It's only an option when I cut and paste text already in ID.

Now the problem has progressed throughout all files once I've pasted in any file. It happens in files that were open when I pasted, and in files I open after that. Is there a way to clear the clipboard somewhere? It seems like this was an option in (much) older versions.

I'm at a loss. This is a really strange glitch.

Sorry, I was not completely accurate in my last post. It's not that all files are slow, it's the problem is persistent. Once I have pasted from Word into an ID file, the file is slow forever, even after I've closed ID completely. So weird.

Edit %26gt; Preferences %26gt; Clipboard Handling %26gt; Text Only.

Ken

I believe it may be related to cross references in the file. After editing cross reference styles, the slowness has stopped. Sorry I don't have more definitive information.

This is exactly what I'm experiencing.?Very frustrating. Have you received a workable answer?

The best I can tell, it is related to the cross references, and that it happened after pasting was coincedental. It could have been that pasting made a cross referenced section move to another page, so it was trying to update.

The cross references are a little buggy:

1. EVERY time I create a cross ref from the cross ref menu (in the cross ref window), ID CS4 (with all patches) crashes. If I create them from the Text menu (at the top), it doesn't crash.
   
2. If you have a large number of cross refs in a doc, it becomes slow.
3. When slowness occurs, I have found that updating the cross refs and then resolving all errors in the cross ref window usually clears it up.