MacBook Air M2 2022 Sluggish with Large Word Doc

[Aushiker]

Hi

My MacBook Air M2 2022, 24 GB Ram, SSD Drive with 457.66 GB free is struggling with Word documents that are large, in particular the one that is giving me problems is 244 pages at present (and growing) and 59,000 words.

The OS is Tahoe 26.4.1.

Even closing down other applications and just leaving Word and MS Edge open does not seem to help

If anyone has any suggestions as to how to improve performance, they would be appreciated.

 

[Aushiker]

Okay, a little more experimenting. I have closed all by Edge and Word, and it worked fine, then I slowly opened apps, Excel, Outlook and Adobe Reader with a large file, and it bombed.

Closing all of them, bar Edge and Word, has not resolved the issue.

Could the issue be in Word and the way it interacts with other apps such as Adobe Reader?

 

[Bigwaff]

Instead of screenshot CPU tab, post screenshot of Memory tab.

 

[chrfr]

Okay, a little more experimenting. I have closed all by Edge and Word, and it worked fine, then I slowly opened apps, Excel, Outlook and Adobe Reader with a large file, and it bombed.

Closing all of them, bar Edge and Word, has not resolved the issue.

Could the issue be in Word and the way it interacts with other apps such as Adobe Reader?

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Have you restarted the computer itself any time recently? If not, try that.