Difficulty in saving document in Microsoft Office 2011 after Yosemite was updated

Is anyone experiencing the same problem as I. When I edit a document in MS office 2011 for Mac and click save us, I get a "shaking" picture of the folders and I cannot type in the new file name right away. Even if I want to cancel the "save as" procedure, it takes a long time before the computer responds. I didn't experience this before I updated with Yosemite and updated my MS Office 2011.
Any suggestions? Thanks

Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
And/or... Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.

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