Spreadsheet Problem(s)

Thanks again to all who helped me solve my AppleWorks program with a new battery.
Here’s my coworkers problem:
Actually two problems - not sure if they’re connected.
1. Data, mostly words, entered into certain cells changes for no reason. For example, an “O” changes to an “L”, a “C” to a “$”
When she tried to retype the correct work or phrase and enter it, the program freezes.
2 At random, formulas that have been working and automatically calculating, stop doing so!
Originally used this spreadsheet on Performer 6116CD, System 7.6, ClarisWorks 3.0. Moved it to AppleWoks 6.2.7. Sometime later started experiencing problems.
Reconstructed a new spreadsheet in AppleWorks 6.2.7, with brand new formats/formulas, but copied and pasted the data. Worked for a few months but now same problems are recurring.
We welcome your ideas!
r a y
P.S. Yesterday I downloaded 6.2.7.

Hello
Welcome to the club of the "autocalc on strike bug".
Every CW/AW5 and AW6 pre 628/629 may corrupt internal pointers in spreadsheets.
The 1st visible consequence is the fact that autocalc no longer do its job automatically.
When the corruption becomes very heavy, it clobber strings and this corruption is not recoverable.
AW 628/629 seems to be unable to introduce new corruption but don't repair already corrupted files.
The trick, often described here, is:
save the doc as an AW5 file.
open the newly created file with AW6.
After that, in most of the case (in fact always for me), the internal pointers are now clean. If the corruption stroke some strings, you (we) will have to repair them by hand but after that you (we) will be safe.
You may also look at:
KOENIG Yvan, "AW: Repair sheets with autocalc on strike", 10:27am Feb 7, 2004 CDT
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE 27 octobre 2005 16:35:04)

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