Find your Temp Directories -- c:\windows\temp c:\Documents and
Settings\<user\Local Settings\Temp
Delete all files & folders in those directories
Restart Excel
Open file

You may need to reboot if you still cant get in if all files could not be
deleted


"bbxrider" wrote in message
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: this is for excel 2000
: excel crashed while doing some vba code testing
: now when re-opening the sheet where crash occurred i get the file is already
: open by myself,
: read-only, notify msg
: is there some way to reset the file lock pointers/file in use/etc without
: rebooting?
: took a quick look in registry but nothing jumped out at me
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