server 2000

That's a question loaded with different topics. One Auditing can be turned on and events viewed through event viewer. (Go into security properties, advanced and set auditing for object or folder). File security would only affect that file and won't prevent someone from saving as a different name but would prevent them from saving as the same file.(Use NTFS file security permissions!) Auditing printing events can be found in the system log under event viewer. It will show who and what was printed. In your situation with a single server this should be easy enough to track all events without any third party software. Open the Printers folder on the server and click on File, Server properties to check the settings for the information being sent to the log files.

Try this:
1)Just mark the XLS spreadsheet as Read Only. When it is set this way, then anyone trying to save it will receive an error box saying that the file is saved as read only and cannot be saved. So, this way, the user can look at it all they want, but they can't save over it and mess things up. Now, this also applies to the file owner, so to be really safe, make a copy of the XLS, mark this copy as Read Only, then make this copy available to your user. Keep your original copy as writablesomewhere safe, away from prying keys.
2)Event Viewer - System records when users print, what they print, when they printed it. So, do this. Open up Event Viewer (multiple ways of doing this), click System to view all records. Ok. Right-click System and choose Properties. Click the Filter tab. In the Event Source dropdown, scroll through until you see Print. Click OK. Now, in the window, you will ONLY see Print messages, with the user and what they printed. You could also Filter the list by User, so if you wanted to see what documents Bob printed, select Print for Event Source and Bob for user. There are also date sorts you can add, machine name sorts (did Bob print something from \\SERVER1 on November12? You can check). I think you get the point on the filtering.
3)You only need a spreadsheet program. Export the System log and sort it in your favorite spreadsheet program. Right-click on System and choose Save Log File As. In the Save As Type dropdown, choose CSV type, the comma-delimited type. It will save the entire System file; if you have it Filtered, the save function does NOT save the list filtered. YOu only get the whole thing.
So, pull the CSV in a spreadsheet program, sort the columns, and then you have your data. Do this every so often for auditing/history purposes.
I really don't think you need any special log analyzier program to do what you want to do here.

Hope this helps.

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