An issue with Pages running slow in tables

Question

I've been using Pages for 2-column (using Tables) AV scriptwriting. I've written several long scripts with it, but recently it's started slowing way down. It's normal, except when going from one row or column to another. And, it slows down when expanding the column. For example, say I'm typing a line like this and it reaches the right hand margin...it slows way, way down to the point I can be 4 or 5 words ahead, before it goes on to the next line.
This has something to do with the row margins. And it does the same thing going from one row to the next. It never did this until the current document. A previous document that had more pages but fewer rows did not do it. But, if I open that older document now, closing down the current one, the old one does the same thing.
It's getting so slow that it's becoming impossible to use.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Well...after suffering for another day, I found a solution.
What I did was give up and open a new document and started working on the last part of the script. I wrote probably 10 or 12 pages. Everything worked fine. As I said earlier, all seemed well on shorter documents, and also, all was well on long documents until the current problem.
So, just for the **** of it, I cut and pasted the new pages at the end of the first big long document that was running slow. Guess what--the new part works fine. I can continue adding to it. After pasting it to the old document, it somehow made the old document run the way it's supposed to.
Go figger.
I had tried copying the old document and pasting it to a new one, but that didn't work.