The document "navidad.numbers" could not be opened.

I created a document during december, and now I can't open it. It's really important, I need help here.
I doesn't gives me any explanation only the pop up saying: The document “navidad.numbers” could not be opened.
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jaimemtz:
This might not help you at this point, but maybe if someone else comes along later, it will help them solve their problem.
I just had this exact same problem and from the looks of your document title, my fix might work for yours as well. I fixed the file by editing the index.xml file in the corrupted numbers file. Numbers '09 doesn't save documents as folders by default anymore, but you should be able to unzip them to folders using something like Unarchiver, 7zip, or a similar program (I used my default archive extraction program, which is called "The Unarchiver"). My problem was that I had put an obscure unicode character in the name of one of my tables. Look at the console output in Console.app and see if something similar doesn't show up. I just went into the text file, changed the offending characters to something from ASCII, and renamed the (unzipped) folder to have the .numbers extension, and the file openned without any issues.
Anyway, like I said, probably won't help at this point, but maybe it will help someone else later.
David

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