You should save the attachment to the hard drive before editing it. You may
still be able to find the modified file in your Temporary Internet Files
folder, though.
See also
http://www.gmayor.com/outlook_attachments.htm (which of course
won't be directly applicable to your situation).
--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"charhager" wrote in message
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I opened a word (97-2003, ".doc") document from gmail.com last night and
began editting it. I keep saving the document and clicking ctrl+s
periodically. At the end of the night, I closed the document to be able to
resend it to myself via email. I had no idea that it wasn't saved on the
desktop. I have search every single temp file and temporary internet
folder
on my C drive and cannot find the "saved" document ANYWHERE. I am panicing
because it is a graduate school application, that's due today. Where can I
find this document?
In addition, there is a chance I found the document but whatever it is is
is
saved as a ".dat" file. I have Windows 2007 and have tried microsoft word,
notepad, word processor, adobe pdf, etc. to try to open it but when I do
it
looks like computer code. If this is the document how do I get it to show
up
like a regular word document? PLEASE HELP! Thank you 