Why do I get the wheel of death every other week?

I get the wheel of death every other week when working in Word. It's what I do for a living so you can imagine my frustration. The MacBook Pro is not even a year old yet. Always happens when cutting and pasting either from another doc into a word doc, or from one section of the same word doc. WHAT IS THE DEAL?

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Macbook is very slow and keeps getting the wheel of death

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Your major problem is that you installed Norton/Symantec. If offers no benefit and only slows your Mac. I suspect yopur computer will run much better if you uninstall it and pledge not to treat your Mac like it is a Windows computer.
WDSmartWare has slowed down my computers before so I no longer use it.
There may be other things at play but it will be hard to tell with Norton/Symantec in the way.

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