My Excel file won't open

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.

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" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>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.

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

"Barb Reinhardt" wrote:

> 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" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >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.
>
>
>

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

--
Paul B
Always backup your data before trying something new
Please post any response to the newsgroups so others can benefit from it
Feedback on answers is always appreciated!
Using Excel 2002 & 2003

"Claudia" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I right clicked on the file --there was no option of SELECT. Is this
feature
> only in Word?
>
> "Barb Reinhardt" wrote:
>
> > 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" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > >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.
> >
> >
> >

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

"Paul B" wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Paul B
> Always backup your data before trying something new
> Please post any response to the newsgroups so others can benefit from it
> Feedback on answers is always appreciated!
> Using Excel 2002 & 2003
>
> "Claudia" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I right clicked on the file --there was no option of SELECT. Is this
> feature
> > only in Word?
> >
> > "Barb Reinhardt" wrote:
> >
> > > 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" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > > news:[email protected]...
> > > >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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>