Try this and see if it works:

1. start Excel in Office Safe Mode
2. open the file
3. save the file (Excel 2000)
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Gary''s Student


"thunderbird30" wrote:

Help! I've got an Excel file that opens fine using Excel 97.As soon as I try
and open it using Excel 2000 the file is displayed for a few seconds then
exits Excel.Excel 2000 opens other files with no problem.

Any ideas?