A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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.
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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.
John,
Why would WORD repaginate the ENTIRE document for each character entered? Wouldn't it make more sense to repaginate starting from THAT character position to the end? Just curious.
And I will DEFINITELY be using the smiley face to let MS know about these issues.
Thanks,
I don't have a smiley on my Menu bar. How do I get one? Or how do I contact MS directly?
Try right clicking (Ctrl+Click) on the Status Bar at the bottom of the window where the Word Count appears and remove the checkmark on the Word Count control.
Let us know if that helps with speed.
I tried your suggestion, but it does not help with the speed issue. It apparently only removes the item containing the word count from the Status Bar. Older versions had a Preferences setting that would let you disable word counting altogether... that setting is no longer available in the Preferences panel.
Hi Thomas
Are you referring to the Display Option to "Shake mouse pointer to locate" under the Accessibility menu in System Preferences (OS X 10.11 El Capitan)?
I tried disabling this feature to no effect on two separate Retina MacBook Pro 13" models. When clicking and holding the trackpad while scrolling through selected text to highlight it for copying and pasting, Word crashed every time (V15.14.0).