Numbers is not responding...the colorful "thinking wheel" just keeps spining and won't let me do anything

How do I get this to stop? It's been 45 minutes.

craigfrommason wrote:
How do I get this to stop? It's been 45 minutes.
I don't remember the number of times I wrote that it's useful to work with "Activity Monitor" running to be able to check if the used applications are behaving correctly (sometimes heavily busy) or if they are frozen.
As Numbers may be heavily busy, I'm not sure that you may start "Activity Monitor" now.
Try to do that. If you may start the app, you will be able to see the true state of Numbers.
As you gave us a ridiculously short set of infos, we can't give an accurate answer.
I already saw Numbers busy for more than an hour.
Sometimes it's its normal behavior.
Sometimes it's the result of a bad design used by the user.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 23 avril 2011 18:31:30

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