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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.
Since word-counting takes SOOOO much effort, is there a way to disable it? I could not care less how many words I have in 99.9999% of my documents!
Now that the scrolling issue is (apparently) corrected, the performance in other areas is still lagging Word 2011 significantly. For example, I have a modest (20 page) document with multi-page tables. After selecting any cell(s), adding or removing highlighting from all of the text in one table cell is virtually instantaneous in 14.5.5 (latest 2011 release), but takes 3-4 seconds in 15.14.0... long enough to see the "spinning beach ball".
I see enough good things in the Word 2016 that I REALLY WANT to be able to use it. However, the best I can do at the moment is raise my rating from "unacceptable" to "marginally acceptable". I sill have to use Word 2011 for my daily work!
I'll keep reporting issues to Microsoft as I run across them (using the "frowny-face" icon) in the hope that, one of these days, I'll be able to finally ditch Word 2011. It just isn't that day yet.
Thanks
Yes, this latest release is supposed to contain "a fix" that "improves" scrolling behaviour.
It sounds as though you now have the "normal" behaviour for Microsoft Word.
It would take 2 minutes to count 115,000 words if the pagination engine had been throttled back to where it is supposed to be :-) That was the original cause of these problems: spelling and pagination were sucking too much power.
If you use a PC, you will see the same behaviour, pagination is completed in the background at a slower rate.
If you must know how many words or pages you have, use a GoTo End command, then click there. That forces the pagination engine up to high priority, and it will complete the pagination and count much quicker. Don't try scrolling while it's doing that :-)
Hope this helps
I JUST completed the upgrade to version 15.14.0.
When I first started WORD with a 675-page document, I thought the problem was still there... CPU utilization sat at about 50% for quite a while. I noticed that the word count was increasing during the first couple of minutes. (Why would it take 2 minutes to count 114,507 words?) Then, about 30 seconds after the word count completed, the CPU utilization started dropping.
It's currently sitting at less than 1% as long as I'm not doing anything to the document. The utilization still jumps up to about 50% as soon as I start scrolling up or down, but that's to be expected, and once I stop, it settles back down to a low value.
I'm CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC that the problem is fixed in this version. Hopefully, others will be able to verify this information.
Kelly,
Nothing to do with 365.
I was beta tester with Office in Mac, same ridiculous buggy software.