There are two GREP styles, one that targets part numers with a character style the second targets xx.xx with a character style both are in the same sparsely used paragraph style. There are many part numbers however. No Cross-references, live pre-flight is off. In Addition, I have removed GREP styles in a some troubled section files without any effect.

Many files. Hit and miss depending on who is opening the file. As I said, there are some files that don't even open for two of us, the rest have no trouble. They were previously booked in order to propegate the new styles. They are no longer in a book. Our general workflow does not include a book but a checkout system. We work on the files on our desktop then place them on the server when we are done. Images are stored on the server.

There are no Cross references in the catalog at least none that I put in using that feature. We manually go through and check that our "see pages" are correct.  Does booking the document create cross-references? If so, how do I get rid of them?

As I understand it, InDesign files that are in a book act like images do in an InDesign document. The individual files do not "know" they are part of a book. I made sure to turn off auto page numbering when I booked the files.  The only reason I booked the files was to propagate the new styles.

It's so odd. I have a file that I rebuilt using Keith Gilbert's method, That got two of us to be able to open the file, Now some users report slow performance on the file others can work in it fine. Same deal with other files, I can work in a file with no slowdowns, Others complain about poor performance. I believe all things are equal on the machine/ software side.

If the network were funky, could this be a cause since all the images are linked to the network? I would not think it is that because the trouble is only in these files, not other ones we work in. I think it has something to do with changing the 'Basic" style to a different typeface. That is the time when we seemed to experience trouble. I am stumped. Thanks for the replies Peter.

What kind of software or programs, do you know?

To be clear, the same file can work on two or three machines, and slow down on two other machines. But the slowdows are not consistent on machines. I have experienced them too. It usually goes away for me if the file is rebuilt but others have slowness issues.   The only thing that is different hardware/ software wise is the changes I described above and I know one person is running OSX Lion but files are still affected that she has not touched. Plus, I booked the files last year without incident.

I am not sure I can get everyone to do that and I don't think that is our issue. I have never had to start OSX in "safe mode". If that were the case, then all files woudl be bad. Not just some of them.

Still looking for answers...

No difference.

I don't have the ablity to add a new user.  I already did the inx export and well as rebuiding the file. We are slogging through and it seems a bit better than it was but the delay is still there. Most of us are running 6GB of RAM, do you think that is sufficient?

That is an IT issue. I would be able to create one on my own but cannot because it is locked down. We have new people working on the files with freshly created accounts and they have the same "slow text box" issue. Copying and pasting. inserting and deleting text are the things that cause hesitation.

I already tried this. No effect.

I have taken the files home and tried it there still the same results. However, CS6 had no issues. The big difference about trying it at home is that the image links were all broken as we store all of them on the network.

We use tons of anchored objects. Probably two to six per page. There are free links as well.

The display performance is set to view setting. I can't go to "fast" setting as I need to see the images. 

Peter or others, any ideas on this?

no.