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Outlook hoax!
I opened a word document attached to an email message in my inbox. I modified
it a great deal and while doing it, kept on saving it. When I closed the email and came back in again, the changes were gone. How does this work? Isn't this misleading on part of word to behave in this manner? Giving an appearance of saving a document while really not saving it? Is there anyway I can retrieve what I did? Please advice. |
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Open the attachment again, and select save. Note where Office saved the file
- probably to a Temporary Internet file. The file you worked on and saved should be there. Remember - the next time you open an attachment, save as immediately to a folder you select - not one Office selects! Hope this helps, Carole O "Sheenemm" wrote: I opened a word document attached to an email message in my inbox. I modified it a great deal and while doing it, kept on saving it. When I closed the email and came back in again, the changes were gone. How does this work? Isn't this misleading on part of word to behave in this manner? Giving an appearance of saving a document while really not saving it? Is there anyway I can retrieve what I did? Please advice. |
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Well, it *is* saving, and as long as the last thing you do is Save As to a
more secure location, your edits will be preserved. But it is being saved in a temporary file in a temp folder, so when you close it (or close Word), it's gone, which is why Save As at the outset is a better option. Some recent versions of Outlook/OE probably won't even let you open the document directly from the email (for security reasons). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Sheenemm" wrote in message ... I opened a word document attached to an email message in my inbox. I modified it a great deal and while doing it, kept on saving it. When I closed the email and came back in again, the changes were gone. How does this work? Isn't this misleading on part of word to behave in this manner? Giving an appearance of saving a document while really not saving it? Is there anyway I can retrieve what I did? Please advice. |
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