Why can't pages handle my large file?

I have a file that I'm working on in Pages that is 317 pages (currently 11,000 words. I'm getting frustrated, though, because each time I try to open it or click back into it from another program, it takes forever to load. Is there some way to clean up my document to make it faster, or something else I can do to make this opperation go more smoothly? Is pages known for having a hard time with files that big? Thank you for any help!

I'm not surprised.
I wrote many times that iWork applications are snails.
From my point of view they suffer of a huge design flaw. The behave as if they were recalculationg the entire document at every change.
Unique workaround available at this time :
split the document in smaller ones.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 17 septembre 2011 17:03:35
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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