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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1650709"><p>Nothing there out of normal, plenty of memory. About all I can suggest is to uninstall and reinstall Office. The spinning beachball is the OS saying it's busy, or waiting for something to complete. If it's only showing up for the Word application, I would suspect some component of MS Office is not performing properly and not getting back to the OS when it is done, if it is, in fact, completing the task. </p><p></p><p>One other potential area of slowdowns could be that whatever you are doing with the 20 page document is causing Word to write out the document to the HD to preserve the history, and that your HD is getting full, or the scratch space Word may be using is getting fragmented. You didn't mention the size of the HD, or how much space is left on it, but on a relatively new machine unless you loaded it up that shouldn't be a problem. But it's worth a check anyway.</p><p></p><p>One thing you may want to look at is to get the application Onyx, from <a href="http://www.titanium.free.fr" target="_blank">here</a> and run it to clean up your system. Get the right version for your system (Mavericks, or 10.9). If you are doing a lot of big file editing, the caches may be getting a bit ragged as well.</p><p></p><p>OH, and you don't need any antivirus/cleaners/etc, other than Onyx. If you get hit with adware, AdwareMedic will clean it up and AdBlock+ and Ghostery will prevent it in the first place. But there isn't any need for all that add-on stuff that Windows needs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1650709"] Nothing there out of normal, plenty of memory. About all I can suggest is to uninstall and reinstall Office. The spinning beachball is the OS saying it's busy, or waiting for something to complete. If it's only showing up for the Word application, I would suspect some component of MS Office is not performing properly and not getting back to the OS when it is done, if it is, in fact, completing the task. One other potential area of slowdowns could be that whatever you are doing with the 20 page document is causing Word to write out the document to the HD to preserve the history, and that your HD is getting full, or the scratch space Word may be using is getting fragmented. You didn't mention the size of the HD, or how much space is left on it, but on a relatively new machine unless you loaded it up that shouldn't be a problem. But it's worth a check anyway. One thing you may want to look at is to get the application Onyx, from [URL="http://www.titanium.free.fr"]here[/URL] and run it to clean up your system. Get the right version for your system (Mavericks, or 10.9). If you are doing a lot of big file editing, the caches may be getting a bit ragged as well. OH, and you don't need any antivirus/cleaners/etc, other than Onyx. If you get hit with adware, AdwareMedic will clean it up and AdBlock+ and Ghostery will prevent it in the first place. But there isn't any need for all that add-on stuff that Windows needs. [/QUOTE]
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