Smart Guides in Indesign aren't working suddenly

I am working on a 100 page catalog. I am on page 70 and suddenly my smart guides will not work for all of the next pages after page 70. If I go back to any of the previous pages the smart guides work without a problem. Any thoughts or ideas as to what is the problem?

There are a couple standard troubleshooting techniques that might help.
There could be corruption in your document. Saving as IDML and reopening might help. Here's how:
http://www.pfl.com/cidf
If that doesn't work, try restoring your InDesign preferences. Here are some instructions:
http://pfl.com/trb
Good luck!

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Hi
I am trying to remove a circular shape from a rectangle in illustrator, the retangles width is 10px and the diameter of the circle is 13px, I centre the circle ontop of the rectangle ( or I appear to) but when I use the Shape mode tool minus front, the circle is no longer centred ( see images)
I have tried switching off smart guides and snap to grid and am still having the same problem.
In the above image you can see once I have divided the 13px circle from the rectangle it has moved off to one side.
Also when I am trying to manually place the circle ( rather than using the centre guides ) I can only move it by a large degree it alway moves further than I move the mouse, could this be because of a pixel grid? I do not think I am using this. ( can see in the above image where I am trying to place the circle and when I let go of the mouse, the grey circle is where it lands
From the 2 images below you can see that there is a 1px difference on either side of the extracted circle I was trying to get centred
I should mention that the 'Align to pixel grid' in the transform menu is inactive when I am trying to do this, as I initially thought that this may be the cause of my problems, but it made no difference

Rebecca,
So why does the minus front tool mess up alignment so much?
No clue. I believe this issue has never been reported.
At a first glance, it really looked like an Align to Pixel Grid issue, and also the fact that it works when both object widths have an odd (or even) number of pixels.
But that is apart from the fact that you stated that it was off. If it were on, Align to Pixel Grid would apply to the circle, to the rectangle, or to both.
Obviously, it is possible to (direct) select each and check. It is also possible to check the Y value of the centre for both in the Transform palette and see that they are actually identical before applying the Pathfinder.
And if on, Align to Pixel Grid should also affect/destroy the Object>Path>Divide Objects Below way. And it should make it impossible to even place both objects centre aligned when one is an odd number of pixels wide and the other is an even number wide.
As the issue is described, it may indicate some Pathfinder>Minus Front malfunctioning.
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1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer;
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, other items may also be relevant);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6, and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Smart guides. They cease to work at 800% zoom level.

Any reason for that?

Lewis when you you zoomed in you some how got the direct select too active you were reshaping the rectangle not moving it.
 
 Here is a screen capture of your last frame of the video.
 
 
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 I was wrong but it is good because I know what manifests the bug and you are correct it is a bug, I apologize for judging so soon.
 
 Try this odd one for size. deselect both objects then zoom in to say 1600%. Now select one of the objects and move it over the other no smart guides! correct?
 
 Now zoom back out so you can see the two rectangles and select one of the objects now zoom in to say 1600% deselect the selected rectangle, then select it again and move it over the other rectangle, you got smart guides.
 
 I will log it in as a bug. you should as well.
 
 There also appears to be other factors, Like I think that originally before zooming the two objects might have to aligned as this doe not always happens as I prescribe.

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J

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When seems to be wrong for no apparent reason, and it is not limited to certain (existing) documents, you may consider the following (you may have tried/done some of them already) and see whether it helps, unless someone comes up with a cleverer suggestion.
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