Pages is agonizingly slow.

Pages has been slow to open and respond for months, but now I have to force quit and it still doesn't open. In the past, trying to save a document sent the spinning beachball into overtime, now it doesn't even get to spin.
My entire system now seems to be slow. AGH!
Help!
I am using an iMac circa 2009. Running Yosemite. 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3 memory.

:-) Oh, you meant I was supposed to check to see how much was available. ha ha.
Looks like I should have enough from what I understood from your earlier response.
Oh well, leaving for a trip tomorrow. Will have to address this on my return.
Thank you.

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Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
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Adding DNS codes to your Network Settings, should gives good results in terms of speed-up:
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208.67.220.220
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Open DNS also provides an anti-phishing feature: http://www.opendns.com/solutions/homenetwork/anti-phishing/ )
Wikipedia also has an interesting article about Open DNS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS
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http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33696
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