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It is impossible to edit some documents because of VERY slow, jerky, jumpy, laggy, erratic, stuttering cursor movement (horizontal worse than vertical). I have been forced to go back to using Word 2011. I am a professional novelist and cannot practice my trade with Word 2016!! This is very disappointing.
As a novelist I work with large word count simply formatted documents with a file size of less than 1M. I have not experimented to find a cut off point with regard to word count but documents in the 100K word size or more (less than 1M file size) exhibit this slow, jerky, laggy cursor movement problem. Small documents in the 5K word range do not have this problem on any of my notebooks.
It can take 10 seconds or more to move the cursor from the right to left side of the page (or vice-versa). This slow erratic cursor movement is especially troubling when trying to select a few words (highlighting them) for editing. It is very frustrating.
I have experimented and found that brand new documents in 2016 file format exhibit this problem. I have created documents with zero text formatting and they have this problem. I removed all formatting in these test documents by copying and pasting ASCII text into the newly created 2016 format doc from original Word 2011 documents.
I have replicated this same problem on three different macbook computers all with SSD and max ram. None of these computers are running with more than 5% CPU utilization (running nothing else except Word 2016). All of these notebook computers edit the same files just fine using Word 2011.
Track changes is not turned on, nor is any other unusual "feature" or function. This problem occurs in all display modes: draft, layout, etc.
**All these notebooks are running the latest version of Yosemite and all with 100% up to date software.
**This is a fatal mission-critical problem for me which has forced me to revert back to using Word 2011. Again, this is very disappointing.**I have been a Word user for something over 25 years (started on MS/PC DOS).
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I confirm quitting Dropbox solves that ridiculous M$oft lag for me.
But Bill Gates just put 1 billion in SoftBank so all bugs will be gone.
Hey Kevin,
Not sure if I really found a "solution"for this, but having exactly same problem here.
It seems that it happens to me every time i go to full screen mode (gets laggy and freaking annoying to work with). So i just closed the program and opened again (not full screen mode) and it goes fine. I guess this just a bug that Microsoft will figure out soon, but til there I am keeping with my strange strategy to get it bit faster.
Cheers and good luck
This is a "grasping at straws" suggestion for people to try in Word 2016. see whether this helps
Go to Application Folder. Then locate Word 2016 and hold down ⌘ and click I (Getinfo). This window opens:
In previous systems the checked item, highlighted with annotations, was known as 32-Bit Mode. The last 4 or 5 systems have been 64 Bit systems Yet most software companies including MicroSoft still either don't know that, or don't care and write applications in 32 Bit mode.
Try switch to the above (Low resolution). I assume it still means 32-bit mode. Then Open the application, and see if it makes any difference. I've switched and the only thing I notice is everything seems to work a Little faster.
If this makes no difference; chalk it up to valiant effort but, it was a dumb idea department.
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Have you also noticed that there are paste icons in the middle of a document after you paste text. I tried clicking and pasting other things but it stays on there. I usually close the document and then they disappear.
As I said it was a grasping at straws suggestion. Maybe some others will take crack at it.
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Hi Phillip,
Thanks for the suggestion... I tried it but it had no effect on the laggy sluggish cursor movement and degraded the appearance of the text :-)) It was worth a try! Thanks!!
Kevin