AppleWorks Spreadsheet file crashes

An AppleWorks Spreadsheet file which I have been using for over a year has developed a problem--it crashed the entire program.
Some symptoms include non-user initiated locking of cells, cell coloration, etc. Program seems to crash whenever the elevator, mutli-cell selection, or other quick command is issued.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Hello
You didn't wrote which AW version you are using.
I assumes that it is not the 6.2.9 one.
What you describe looks like the behaviour of spreadsheet corrupted by the "autocalc on strike" bug available on every version before 628/629.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 7 août 2007 07:01:44)

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Using the Search feature in the upper right I came across the following thread:
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