Information on the "slow typing" issue

I think I've uncovered a (maybe the) cause of the slow typing complaints that's worthy of a new topic. I had severe problems with the trifold brochure, and found that some other templates also were "slow typing" templates. After reading all the posts here, with at least a dozen different fixes, none of which fixed my particular probelm, I started experimenting. What I found was interesting.
All my problems with slow typing (seeing the results of key presses show up on-screen seconds after the event) were traced to one single problem - a table format. When text flowed around a table with its Text Fit choice as "Wrap text to follow a square border", typing was slow. With the Text Fit choice changed to "Wrap text to follow the contour", typing was fast. Seems too simple.
This change made a HUGE difference in the trifold brochure, and a noticeable difference in a couple of the others that I tried. Some tables, especially those with pictures, not text, are disguised and not easy to recognize, so if you're having the notorious "slow typing" problem, look carefully at tables in your document as a possible cause.

I am a scientist who needs to write grants and papers with long text sections and embedded figures. I LOVE the way Pages handles graphics but even with a 12 page document with 3 small tables and 2 figures I am waiting 10-20 seconds for the typing to catch up (doing all the suggestions in these threads)! Together with the fact that there is no direct link to referencing programs like Endnote (which I am forced to use to interact with PC-based colleagues) makes Pages decidedly less useful than the Phantom Menace - MS Word. That beast uses 1/3 the CPU percentage and works faster in general than this lean, mean, Apple product. NOTE TO APPLE: Please please please bring users like me back from the dark side!!
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