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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.
Hi Derrik,
OK, after the last update today, typing and scrolling are way better.
Good.
But...
Word 2016 still has a big impact on energy. More than 50% on the processor.
There's still work to be done, as I can't use a software all day that is consuming that much.
Keep it up!
Same here...
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I just updated to version 15.12.3 and it's A LOT better than it was before! I recommend everyone to update and check it out.
Scrolling is A LOT faster and smoother, but typing still lags sometimes if you type too fast and the cursor stops blinking or will blink only once every many many seconds. Also clicking on the text takes a little bit for the cursor to actually 'move' there.
It's better, but still a lot of room for improvement.
(Details:
Computer = iMac, running Yosemite 10.10.4, the machine itself has a 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA GT 750M 1024MB.
A 10 pages document, no images, with track changes, makes Word use ~50% CPU, if I scroll it can spike up to 80% CPU usage, but now at least scrolling is smoother. Change cursor position using the mouse, and typing fast doesn't affect CPU usage, but it can be slow something. Cursos blink is virtually non-existent).
EDIT:
I noticed the cursor blinks in a weird fashion while Word does word count. It was weird, the word count on the bottom of the screen increased and decreased a few times, and every time it changed the cursor would blink in a weird way. It took a while for it to count the 3800 words in the document… (at first it showed me more than 10k words, and it kept going up and down until it decided it was done after a minute or so).