Can't open a file because it locked itself

[Michael G]

I cannot open an Excel file that I just used a day ago.
I'm using Excel 200 as part of Office 2000. I'm told by
Wxcel that the file is bieng used by "Mike" That's me. It
gives me the option to open Read Only or to be Notified.
Either way, it bings up the file in the background with
another notification that an illegal operation has
occurred and the program will be shut down.

I did not protect the file My only guess is that the file
was corrupted when I shut down for the night. I'm not sure
but it also appears to be twice as large (1.8kb vs about
750kb) as if it save itself twice. All speculation. I have
no idea what happend or how to recover this file.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Mike

EXCEL caused an invalid page fault in
module EXCEL.EXE at 0167:3005c673.
Registers:
EAX=00000018 CS=0167 EIP=3005c673 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=308c9d5d SS=016f ESP=0062cedc EBP=0062cef0
ECX=00000000 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=1127
EDX=ffffffff ES=016f EDI=00000018 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
83 20 00 8d 45 f4 50 ff 75 10 e8 6c fc ff ff ff
Stack dump:
00000000 0068d464 00fe904c 0062cf14 308c9d5d 0062cf14
3005c610 010faae4 00000000 00000000 00000018 016336c4
01633778 01519d58 0062cf2c 3005c580