InDesign CC slow

Why is InDesign CC working so slow? The slowest version ever. I have worked with InDesign since the

It is not open and there was only one hyperlink in the entire document. I deleted it just in case but the performance did not improve… Even when I type text it sometimes takes a second until the letters appear. Same thing when I move the cursor with the arrow keys in a text box. InDesign is my day to day business and this is killing me. Fortunately its just happening on some documents – here I think it started when i copied a (simple) vector object from Illustrator into InDesign.
Am 30.04.2014 um 08:04 schrieb ariacat <[email protected]>:
Re: InDesign CC slow
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Try closing the Hyperlinks panel if it is open. My program can slow to a crawl when it is open, even if there are no hyperlinks! And if you've imported text from a Word doc, you may notice that it creates all sorts of strange unrelated hyperlinks that will slow it even more.
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