Any remedy for slow performance of Pages '09 on MacBook Air?

I love Pages '09 (except for the lack of a system for automatic numbering of figures and tables), but I have been struggling with it on my MacBook Air, which I have used as my travel computer for more than a year. On this trip (a month) Pages has started to perform very sluggishly. It's almost impossible to work with masks for inserted pdf graphs, typing is exceedingly slow, and so is saving the file. It's a first-generation MacBook Air with an 80GB hard drive, with a little more than 10 GB available.
I'll be home soon and have my MacBook Pro, but it's really affecting my performance in the field, so if there is a quick fix, I'd appreciate hearing about it.
Thanks, Rick

Open activity monitor (in applications/utilities). Check system memory and note if you have page outs. If so, you don't have enough memory for what you are trying to do. If you can't raise your system's memory, then you should consider breaking your huge 100 page file into separate files. I suspect that is the issue here, the file is so big it can't be held in memory (fast) so it is swapped back and forth between memory and the hard disk (very slow). Thus the stutter.

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