"Don Guillett" wrote in message
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We know you feel better now. Shoulders to cry on and all that.

Surely, this isn't the only instance of a corrupted file in your computing
experience.
Emptying the \temp folder, using scandisk and defrag frequently might
help.
I would re-build that file.


That would be just ducky if it were just that file. The problem is that the
file is lots of files, all differing in data content. Each file represents
a model of an event. To be precise, a sporting event involving horses, big
hair smelly things, and cattle, not so big but hairier and smellier. This is
supposed to be a system to manage this sort of event. You create a sheet,
either from a template or more likely, from a previous event, and start a
new event. No matter how matter how many times we rebuild them, no matter
how many instances, no matter what variation in data, Excel keeps insisting
on dying based on principles apparently unknown to the rest of the civilized
world.

A pragmatic solution like clean up this or that, dust this off, paint this
blue and in the finest tradition of the classic fallacy Post Hoc Ergo
Propter Hoc, the problem seems to go away is not sufficient to continue.
Without a concise statement of necessary and sufficient conditions as to
just what is causing this, other than mice in the washroom, the project will
have to be abandoned.

Unless one knows just what is the cause of something one can never know that
one has fixed it.

--
Terry

"I said I never had much use for one,
I never said I didn't know how to use one."
M. Quigley