Dragging guides out crashes Indesign CC

Hi,
I've just updated to Indesign CC and whenever I try to drag guides out onto my document the programme crashes. Any ideas?
I am on a Mac Pro 3.1 running Mountain Lion with a quadro 4000

Thanks for getting back to me Michael.
The update appeared in Creative Cloud shortly after you answered and has solved the problem.
Kind of you to assist. Thank you.

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