Word: Very slow to load and respond. April 21, 2011. Word 2007 — and now Word 2010 — on my Vista laptop has often been very slow to load a document and to respond to a document command (like Save). I’ve been blaming Vista.
Enzobond wrote: Hello guys, i have this issue when use word 2016 for Mac (but the same problem was for the 2011 version of office for Mac): when i type after highlighted text, word suffer of a lag of about 1 second, so it does not record the first typings.it's very frustrating! I did use Office 2011 for Mac and since two weeks I use Office 2016 for Mac - Word 2016 too with El Capitan and do not recognize the problem. FYI: two days ago there is a update for Office 2016 for Mac to 15.19.1. Close al Office 2016 for Mac applications and the browser. Start Microsoft Auto Update and do the update. Have you checked if the problem happened when you use Pages & the Apple Text Editor?
Try a restart. Do a backup, using either Time Machine or a cloning program, to ensure files/data can be recovered. Two backups are better than one. Try setting up another admin user account to see if the same problem continues.
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If Back-to-My Mac is selected in System Preferences, the Guest account will not work. The intent is to see if it is specific to one account or a system wide problem. This account can be deleted later.
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If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal.
If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
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