My manager sent me an email back containing a report that I wrote for him
attached to the email. He wanted me to fix part of the report. I opened the
attachment without saving it, and it opened in microsoft word. I began to
change the report right on the attachment in word. I saved it a number of
times as i was changing it. Now i have closed the document and when i try to
reopen it a grey box pops up saying "the document name is not valid, Check
the file permissions for the document or driver, use the file open dialog box
to locate the file." I have tried many thing to attempt at opening the file.
Does anybody have any suggestions?

All I can do is offer my condolences and a warning for next time:

When you open an attachment document directly from the email, you're opening
a temporary file in a temporary folder. As soon as you close Word --
regardless of whether you saved, unless you did a Save As to a real
folder -- anything you've done is deleted, permanently and irretrievably
lost. Gone, kaput, forget it.

*Always* save the document to some folder *before* you edit it.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Tim Brown wrote:
My manager sent me an email back containing a report that I wrote for
him attached to the email. He wanted me to fix part of the report.
I opened the attachment without saving it, and it opened in microsoft
word. I began to change the report right on the attachment in word.
I saved it a number of times as i was changing it. Now i have closed
the document and when i try to reopen it a grey box pops up saying
"the document name is not valid, Check the file permissions for the
document or driver, use the file open dialog box to locate the file."
I have tried many thing to attempt at opening the file. Does anybody
have any suggestions?

try with undelete sw on your temp folder. could be the temporary files
created by word can be restored.
Toni

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My manager sent me an email back containing a report that I wrote for him
attached to the email. He wanted me to fix part of the report. I opened
the
attachment without saving it, and it opened in microsoft word. I began to
change the report right on the attachment in word. I saved it a number of
times as i was changing it. Now i have closed the document and when i try
to
reopen it a grey box pops up saying "the document name is not valid, Check
the file permissions for the document or driver, use the file open dialog
box
to locate the file." I have tried many thing to attempt at opening the
file.
Does anybody have any suggestions?