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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"Claudia" <Claudia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:35F1DAFD-BEF9-4028-A6CE-2B577AEBB2C4@microsoft.com...
> 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" <Claudia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:D388D6D7-116E-42FA-A0F4-0E65E75B50D7@microsoft.com...
> > >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.
> >
> >
> >