diff --git a/openlp/core/lib/renderer.py b/openlp/core/lib/renderer.py
index 411575d77..a1f64804f 100644
--- a/openlp/core/lib/renderer.py
+++ b/openlp/core/lib/renderer.py
@@ -284,6 +284,9 @@ class Renderer(object):
         elif item.is_capable(ItemCapabilities.CanSoftBreak):
             pages = []
             if u'[---]' in text:
+                # Remove two or more option slide breaks next to each other (causing infinite loop).
+                while u'\n[---]\n[---]\n' in text:
+                        text = text.replace(u'\n[---]\n[---]\n', u'\n[---]\n')
                 while True:
                     slides = text.split(u'\n[---]\n', 2)
                     # If there are (at least) two occurrences of [---] we use