thanks for the reply, its kind of daunting in the
Documents and Settings\<user\Local Settings\Temp
area with so much in there, with other apps open, i'm afraid of botching up
some other open app
will shut down all apps before next reboot, then delete everything there and
then after reboot and open excel
and see what shows up


"Lady Layla" wrote in message
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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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