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Stop a macro

Applies to: Microsoft Office Excel 2003

Do one of the following:

If you want to stop a macro (macro: An action or a set of actions you can use to automate tasks. Macros are recorded in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language.) that's currently running, press ESC, and click End in the Microsoft Visual Basic dialog box.
If you want to prevent automatically running a macro when you start Microsoft Excel, hold down SHIFT during startup.

See Also

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