Saving documents on Microsoft Word is slow w new 10.9.2 update

Hi,
I use Microsoft Word constantly and immediatley after I updated to 10.9.2, I noticed that some commands are very slow. Copy, paste, and especially the save commands takes about 1 minute to actually save. When I click save the computer freezes for a while and the wait color wheel is slowly saving my work. Ive had my Mac for 3 years and have never had issues with it until now. Please help. Thanks!

Try booting to your Recovery partition by holding down the Command and R keys and starting up. Choose Disk Utility and repair the disk. See if that helps.

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