HELP...... spreadsheet will not open in Numbers

I have used numbers for years and today when I try to open a spreadsheet that was created a couple of years ago, it will not open. It just opened two days ago.... Does anyone know what is going on with Numbers? I am operating maverick and my numbers version is 3.01. Please help!

That's the usual cause. The document could have been corrupted by who-knows-what. Do you have a Time Machine backup? You might find a good copy of the document there, maybe with the last update missing.
Also, try Open With: Preview in Finder. If it opens in Preview you can see the contents and have some hope of recovery, even if only manually.
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