Pages '09--- spinning ball when saving a document

I've discovered that Pages '09 doesn't like to save documents without a long delay (at least 5-7 minutes) and "spinning beachball". The length of the document is irrelevant, from a 1 page to 8 page document I find that same situation....I've installed the latest update and that makes no difference. There are no special things; it's a straight written document--no images inserted, nothing except text. Anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions to its resolution? Also, is there anyway to make Pages save documents as they're being written, (auto saving) so that an entire document won't be lost should the program go down before the work is finished?

GRS wrote:
I've discovered that Pages '09 doesn't like to save documents without a long delay (at least 5-7 minutes) and "spinning beachball". The length of the document is irrelevant, from a 1 page to 8 page document I find that same situation....I've installed the latest update and that makes no difference. There are no special things; it's a straight written document--no images inserted, nothing except text. Anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions to its resolution? Also, is there anyway to make Pages save documents as they're being written, (auto saving) so that an entire document won't be lost should the program go down before the work is finished?
The described behavior is not the normal one.
Here, a 23 pages document (4820 words) is saved in three seconds.
About the autosave, it's a bit boring to see that some one registered to forums since 2001/10/06 is unable to use the search feature.
Your question was responded a few hours ago:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2021310&tstart=0
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 30 mai 2009 15:08:19)

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