Cutting and pasting in MS Word: hourglass pops and it takes longer than expected

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Published on 2009-12-09T08:30:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 12:03 UTC
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I work with MS Word 2007. Today I created a new document, and for some reason cutting and pasting text (using Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V) takes longer than expected.

To clarify, here's the process:

I select a single word in the document
I click Ctrl-X
The hourglass shows up for 1-2 seconds
The word is cut

The same happens for pasting (i.e. 1-2 seconds of hourglass). This document is ~5 pages long, with nothing fancy. I have plenty of available RAM and my CPU usage is around 1-2%, there's not peak during the cut/paste.

Any thoughts on what can cause this and what I can do against it?

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