My Excel file won't open

[Claudia]

I am making a catalog in Excel. It contains about 140,000KB, with photos. It
has 12 tabs. Each time I opened it to work , it was getting more and more
'sluggish' and would take about 2 minutes to finish saving.
Now when I click on it or chose'open', it times out-- no hourglass- it will
not open. I have Microsoft XP.

 

[Barb Reinhardt]

You may be able to open and repair this workbook. Try this:
* File -> Open
* Go to the folder where the workbook is located.
* Right click on the file and choose SELECT.
* The Open button will have several choices, one is "OPEN AND REPAIR".

I've only done this with "corrupted" WORD docs so good luck.

 

[Claudia]

I right clicked on the file --there was no option of SELECT. Is this feature
only in Word?

 

[Paul B]

Claudia, in 2002, from the open dilog box select your file, there is a drop
down box next to the open button you can select open and repair from there

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Paul B
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Feedback on answers is always appreciated!
Using Excel 2002 & 2003

 

[Claudia]

My version is Excel 2000. I select the file. Right click.The drop down box
has these options: Open, Open read only , Open as copy, Print, Scan with
Avast, Print, Open with..., ad to archive, add to catalog rar, compress,
Cut, Copy, etc.
Nothing about repair
Other fixes I have tried: I emptied my temp files and also checked to see
that each sheet was only one page.
I'm going to sleep