"index.numbers" can't be opened

I have upgraded my MacBook Air 2012 to Mavericks, and then upgraded to Numbers 3.0 from whichever version I had before (bought a few months ago). One of my Numbers spreadsheets now refuses to open, giving the message ““index.numbers” can’t be opened.” when I try to open it on iCloud or on my local disk, but “Quick Look” works OK. The spreadsheet is very simple — 300 rows by 4 columns, numeric data + one formula per row, one chart — and it would suffice to recover just the numeric data, because I could reconstruct the rest myself.
Any suggestions?

OK, I'll answer my own question.
Eventually, I discovered that I should use Time Machine to restore my previous version of Numbers (version 2.3) to a convenient place. Using Numbers 2.3, I then discovered that the chart in my "problem" spreadsheet was the cause of its incompatibility with Number 3.0 - i.e. when I used Numbers 2.3 to delete the chart in the spreadsheet, then Numbers 3.0 could open this modified version of the spreadsheet.
Problem solved!

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