Force Excel to stop calculating

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Is there a way to force Excel to stop calculating a formula?
Excel showing "Not Responding" and is grayed out. I've tried to use Task Manager to stop the application, but as soon as open up Excel it goes right back to opening the spreadsheets and starts calculating again. I have spreadsheets saved, so don't have to recover.
thanks...Dean
 

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If it is calculating from some action other than clicking save you can hit the Escape "Esc" key to force it to stop. You can also turn off auto-calculate in the formulas tab calculation section (to the far right).
 
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