Clearing overrides in Cell and Table Styles causes crash

I can not "Apply [...], Clear Overrides" in a Cell, Table or Paragraph style without InDesign CC crashing. I have removed all Object styles from the tables that I am working with. I tried exporting to .idml and starting a new file and have the same issue.

@Chris – Is InDesign CC patched to the latest version?
Are you interested to test a script by Marc Autret posted at the inDesign Scripting Forum?
See the following thread and posts:
creativejoan0425
How to break link to cell/table style in a selection
Dec 14, 2013 3:51 PM
https://forums.adobe.com/message/5929954#5929954
See Marc Autret's script for cleaning different levels:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/5931169#5931169
Change the last line of his code to your will. Basically you have 4 options. Chose *one* of those:
Option 1 LEVEL 0:
breakLinkToCellStyleSelection(0); // LEVEL 0 => only clear overrides relative to *defined* style attributes
Option 2 LEVEL 1:
breakLinkToCellStyleSelection(1); // LEVEL 1 => clear all overrides (through root style)
Option 3 LEVEL 2:
breakLinkToCellStyleSelection(2); // LEVEL 2 => clear all overrides and apply [None]
Option 4 LEVEL 3:
breakLinkToCellStyleSelection(3); // LEVEL 3 => apply [None] *in depth* (i.e. release all attributes)
Select your cells or your table and run the whole script.
Does it crash InDesign CC as well?
Uwe

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please suggest how to simply this script and make it run faster can anyone suggest me. Also suggest me to how can add this "Clear Override" syntax with this script. I want to make this script very effective. Thanks in advance to all.
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The reason for that error is easy.
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means "if the style does not exist, create it and assign it to the variable". What happens when it does exist? (I'll let you think of an answer here.)
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