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I have a long document created in Pages (900+ pages) and stored in iCloud. As such, any edits that I make I get the spinning beach ball. Is there any way of speeding up Pages? I know that with some word processing programs, it is possible to divide long documents into separate parts and then combine them at a later time. I have not seen this to be a feature with Pages.
I went ahead and saved my document to a Word file and Word works just fine. In my case, editing a long document is not practical using Pages. I just want the Apple engineers to know that Pages is far from being a professional word processing program, which I believe seriously hinders the Mac platform.
I went ahead and saved my document to a Word file and Word works just fine. In my case, editing a long document is not practical using Pages. I just want the Apple engineers to know that Pages is far from being a professional word processing program, which I believe seriously hinders the Mac platform.
I had submitted a reply earlier, but now do not see it. Here is what I did to solve the problem of the crunched up Styles Pane. Save the file as a .doc file. Open the .doc file and everything is good in the Styles Pane as seen in the picture below. Then save as a .docx file.
Pages has never been a favorite application with large documents, especially those with a large quantity of images. That is why corporations use Word, or InDesign for the larger, more complex document handling capability.
If you are on your Mac and working on a large Pages document located on iCloud, each operation that impacts the document must travel across the variable speed Internet to Apple's servers; update the document, and then image those changes back across the link to your Pages session. That spinning beach ball is the operating system informing you that it is busy waiting on the previously described round trip activity to complete. There is no speeding up Pages unless you are working on a grocery list.
Apple does not guarantee that any content in Pages will export (translate) to Word .docx exactly as you viewed it in Pages, and it may appear differently in Word, with some Pages features suffering in the translation process. Export the Pages content to PDF, and if you are using Word 16.31 or later, it has a new Mac feature to convert PDF back to Word documents. See if that improves the process.
Apple never set out to create a professional grade application to compete with Word or any other third-party word processing application. And it shows.
I have converted my long Pages document to Word. Then I moved the newly converted Word document to iCloud and there is no lag. The problem is not the remote server iCloud, but Pages. It would seem that Pages does not bring in the entire document, but is dependent upon disk access and storage whether resident or remote.
When I export Pages document to Word there is a problem with styles. When I open the Styles Pane in Word of any exported Pages document, the styles are all scrunched together. See image below.
Additionally concerning the comment from VikingOSX, I moved the Pages document out of iCloud to the Movies folder to make the document resident. Still it runs too slow.
Thank you so much. I will give that a try.
Long documents in Pages is slow
