Is Pages 6.0 lagging badly for anyone else?

Thanks Peter,

Yes, my document is large - it's a book so it's about 450 pages. There's plenty of space on my hard drive. I am not saving it remotely. I was using Pages remotely but switched the document to a file I named local docs on my computer. It's not exactly perfect because I enjoyed having access to it on all my devices but I'd get messages saying that there were two documents with that name that hadn't been reconciled (or whatever the lingo is) and I'd have to choose one. So I moved everything back to my local drive. The layout is fairly simple - although there are quite a few indented sections and I changed the tabs etc... Normal word processing stuff. And added some photos (and will need to add more). Anyway, I've now transferred the whole document to Word 2011 which I still have. I think the lag might have had something to do with cutting and pasting paragraphs. I clicked on view Invisibles but it doesn't actually reveal many invisibles. Thanks for your comments. It didn't lag in all sections of the document but I don't have the time to find out why and viewing the Invisibles didn't help.

As slow as Clarus the dogcow.

Ahhhh I remember Clarus!

Had to put her down when she contracted the rare hybrid: Rabies-Brucellosis.

Peter

In other words it is…

it is as slow as your connection

Peter

Moving to local disk–same problem persists.

I know this was posted a while ago but I just wanted to chime in and note that, even after a couple updates, I'm still having this issue myself. I did turn off "Correct Spelling Automatically" to avoid the 'extremelyemely' issue that I also experienced. It seems to have helped the overall lag, too. I'm running on the newest 15" MBP w/TouchBar and an up-to-date OS so there is absolutely no reason for performance issues on my end. Must be a software issue, which is incredibly disappointing since Apple just pushed out an update to Pages with utterly superfluous additions, such as locking documents with a fingerprint and adding bookmarks, when they have yet to address the lag issue in addition to refusing to add genuinely useful features like citation support. I really do prefer Pages to Word for its UI, iCloud syncing, and the new collaboration feature they added recently, which works like a charm, but they're getting on my nerves with silly things like this.

Please apple, can you fix this? I am using Pages 6.2 to write a book and because of the lag, I am now going to have to change to Microsoft Docs. (Word 2011!) Surely you should be able to fix it if it didn't happen on previous Pages (I've only recently switched to Pages so am only familiar with the current version.) I've turn off everything like spell check and other auto correction options (and even letter repeat). And still have the problem. If anyone knows what is going on, can they please let us know? Thanks. Gary.

Yes, turn off grammar checking, wait for updates.

Peter

A brand new major release of macOS, and a new release of Pages v6. Neither are performance optimized, or bug free at this point, and according to your profile, you are on a 3.5 year old Mac that is configured in who knows what way. On my 2014 MBA, macOS Sierra introduced another 65 processes (over El Capitan) to support all the new feature creep that I won't use. It steals away my memory and interactive performance.

There could be a myriad of reasons why Pages v6 lags on your MBA, above and beyond the new product observation in the first paragraph. Although Pages v5.6.2 (and probably) v6 are egregious dogs with large, image saturated documents, there may be more that you are not sharing.

Go get the free Malwarebytes and run that to see if your Mac is infected with any performance robbing malware.

Same thing here. Mostly when I switch betweeen Pages and Chrome.

This has been making me crazy. I will type, ten seconds later it will come onto the screen. But here's where it gets weird--it must process my keyboard input differently from spellchecking, because in the time where nothing appears on the screen, it decides to finish a word before I am done typing it. For example, I may type "extremely" and it will come out as "extremelyemely." I don't want to turn off spell check, I have so many abbreviates set and so many slight errors that it would take too long to go thorough every single typo--I notice in thsi, there is no spell check, which is 'extremelyemely' annoying.

I have this problem too! Did you ever figure out the problem?