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I am having a huge problem with opening a very important document!
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? |
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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? |
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