Microsoft Office 2008 document fail to open

Hi guys,
Sorry if I posted on the wrong board, but I couldn't find a board for Microsoft Office. Anyway, I was working on a notebook document, using Office 2008, and Office suddenly shut down with an error message. Unfortunately this hasn't been the first time that it has been shut down. However, this time it won't allow me to open that particular document anymore. I've tried opening other documents in the same notebook format and those opened fine. I have no idea what's going on, only that I need those notes, lol. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
WendyCunn

I just spent 90 minutes on the phone with an excellent Microsoft/Mac Tech Support person, to deal with a similar problem. I have been using Microsoft Office 2008 for several months, and it has been working just fine. This morning, I was working on invoices, and I could open the invoice files, but not the (separate, unlinked) summary files that listed all invoices to date. I could open them in Excel 2004, but not in Excel 2008.
We ran through a number of diagnostics. I reinstalled MS Office 2008, and I could open the files. Then I downloaded the latest update from the Mactopia website and installed it, and the files would no longer open.
It turns out that there's a change in the file-naming rules in Excel 2008. Where we were once able to use symbols (asterisks and backslashes), they are no longer recognized. Since my files were originally saved as a copy of an earlier file with an asterisk in the file name, that original file's *sheet name* still appeared (at the bottom of the document), and 2008 would not open the file.
The fix -- Open in Excel 2004, right-click (or control+click) on the sheet name and select "rename." Modify so there are no symbols other than underscore and hyphen, and save. You should be able to open the document in Excel 2008.

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