Preview won't stop searching old document

I opened several PDF files in preview. I did a 'search' for a word... preview locked up. I forced quit. reopened and its back at the search status and freezes again. I tried opening another document and it goes back to the previous documents and searches again and freezes again. I restarted my computer and it still is doing it. Driving me nuts! I have shut down all 'show previous open items' in preview. Its driving me nuts!! HELP!

Quit the application. Force quit if necessary.
Relaunch it by holding down the shift key and clicking its icon in the Dock.

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