EXTREMELY S-L-O-W text entry in some sections of a Pages 5.2 document

Hello -
I have recently bumped into a problem with Pages 5.2 (the most recent version) whereby at certain points in the document text entry becomes extraordinarily slow. In these sections, It takes 1/4 to 1/2 second per character for text to appear. I can type an entire paragraph and watch it appear on screen in slow motion, which obviously makes it close to impossible to work in these sections.
The odd thing about this behavior is that it does not occur at all points in the document. It is not, repeat not, document-wide. Furthermore, I believe it to be related to cut-and-paste issues from either Safari or Preview, but there are some sections where I have cut and pasted that do exhibit this behavior.
This document exhibits the same issues whether I open it on my Mac Mini or on my MBA via Pages using iCloud. Pages for iCloud (beta) does not exhibt these issues, but it is too limited for me to use as my main document creation tool. The document also exhibits the same issues when saved locally and opened via the hard drive of either machine.
I have done the following, to no avail:
Deleted the style of text applied to the slow sections and applied "default" formatting;
Turned off "check spelling while typing" and "check spelling automatically;"
Turned on invisible characters to see if any code was inserted into these sections;
Deleted ALL formatting in the document, turning it into one giant stream-of-consciousness text;
Cut and paste text into a new Pages document;
Exported to Word 2011 and re-importing.
Only (6) allowed me to type normally when in Word. But when I re-opened the document in Pages, the molasses-slow sections were still there.
I'd be happy to hear any suggestions the community has. This is a draft article I am working on and it's tough to focus on my ideas when I'm dogged by these formatting issues.
Thanks!

An interesting note from "iWork"
Hello there,
We have heard about your issue from the discussion thread below:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6305248?tstart=0
We would like to know if you would be able to provide the following:
- OSX and Pages versions
- is iCloud file sync On for Pages
- copy of a document that shows the slow issue with Pages
- detals about workflow before the slow issue happened with Pages
- is the file stored on the local hard drive or on a network serfer
- are any apps, downlaods or backups in progress when Pages is open
Thank you,
The iWork Team
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I'd be more inclined to trust this if there weren't spelling and grammar errors in the reply. I'm surprised they didn't ask for a credit card and/or SSN!
Needless to say, I will not be responding.

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Hello forums,
I'm new to the forums (and Captivate in general), but I'm having a real problem carrying out a tutorial design and I think you may be my only hope. Let me explain what I want to do and the difficulty that I'm having:
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I'd be extremely grateful for any help that anyone here can give me, we've been trying to make our online tutorials more engaging and interactive (and therefore more interesting), and I think this would be a great way to teach students about using quotes in their catalog searches.
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The tutorial is for a "how to use catalog searching" instruction in an undergraduate library session. We use boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to combine search terms, ex. to search for books about the sleeping habits of college students, I would enter "college students AND sleep." Because "college students" is a multi-word phrase to describe one concept, I need to put quotation marks around the phrase to prevent the catalog from searching for the individual words separately, so the most correct search becomes ["college students" AND sleep] with quotation marks around only "college students," a user-typed "AND," and the word "sleep" (no q-marks).
A colleague of mine worked out a pretty cool (if complicated) solution that I'll share if anyone is interested. Since the q-marks where the problem, we've set it up so that the TEB validates the response for the search string with q-marks around "college students." If they enter it correctly, the tutorial jumps to the corresponding slide. The attempt # is set to 1, and if the user fails to enter the validated phrase (they misspell or use one of the other response options) then the TEB is set to run an Advanced Actions Script in which the other two options are scripted in IF/THEN statements that cause, when the term is entered correctly, the tutorial to jump to their corresponding slides. We've created another tab of IF/THEN statements that say that if the response is NOT equal to one of these response options, then the slide restarts (technically the slide "jumps" back to itself and starts over) and the user gets another chance to start the cycle over again.
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Hi there
Project size affects lots of things. You should consider yourself lucky that you haven't seen corruption and loss of data with that many slides!
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that would be great.
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>>Other Input Methods: Voice Dictation
Prediction and Correction
>> Prediction Display
Show Predictions: OFF
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Auto Correct with Spacebar: OFF
Word Substitution: ON (that said, turning it on or off makes NO difference)
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Period Shortcut: ON
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Yes, it is. I realized after posting the first time, that I'd assigned the question to the Visio forum. I wasn't sure how to reassign to the correct (Excel) forum, so I re-posted over there:
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