Text appears slower than typing

Hello, not sure how to describe this so an initial search did not yield any answers. For a couple of days now whenever I type in a document the letters appear slowly, and not almost immediately as they usually do. There seems to be a time lag between my typing and when the words start forming on the screen. Has this happened to anyone else? Pages only; my Mail, Numbers, Keynote are not affected. Thanks in advance!
Al

It would be interesting to know the size of the document, at least the count of words.
Maybe I missed something but I don't know which is the exact version in use.
Is it Pages v.4.0.5 ?
How was your system updated as 10.6.6 ?
Was it thru Software update?
If it was, hurry up, download and apply the combo updater.
The 10.6.6 one is available from :
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1349
the 10.6.7 one is available from :
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1361
There is an annoying bug in 10.6.7 so, it's not necessarily be a good idea to apply the 10.6.7 one.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 9 avril 2011 12:57:30

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