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Saving edits in MS-Word email attachments?
I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who
received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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Saving edits in MS-Word email attachments?
The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without
opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits. Then send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons to not open attachments directly from email. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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Saving edits in MS-Word email attachments?
Thanks Charles. Your suggestion sounds a bit more efficient than what I
described. I would be interested, however, in what the reasons for not opening an attachment directly from the email message. I do make it a practice to save attachments that might be malware and check them with my AV program. Where there remains a question, I simply delete the entire message. But if there are other technical reasons for saving and then opening say a WORD attachment, if you could point me to a web site that might provide that info, I'd be most grateful. Kindest regards, PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits. Then send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons to not open attachments directly from email. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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Saving edits in MS-Word email attachments?
When you open an attachment directly from an email, it is saved in a
temporary folder, and all the edits you make to it are made to a temporary file, which is deleted when you close Word. When you forward an email with an attachment, you are forwarding the email with the original attachment; there is no way to forward an email with an edited attachment, since the edits are not made to the actual attached file. -- 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. "PJF" wrote in message .net... Thanks Charles. Your suggestion sounds a bit more efficient than what I described. I would be interested, however, in what the reasons for not opening an attachment directly from the email message. I do make it a practice to save attachments that might be malware and check them with my AV program. Where there remains a question, I simply delete the entire message. But if there are other technical reasons for saving and then opening say a WORD attachment, if you could point me to a web site that might provide that info, I'd be most grateful. Kindest regards, PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits. Then send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons to not open attachments directly from email. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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Saving edits in MS-Word email attachments?
The two big reasons are malware, which may or may not escape your virus
scan, and that it is very easy to lose things opened directly from an email. One gimmic that creators of malware have been known to use is double filename extensions so that something looks like a document file in an email attachment but is really a vbscript or an exe file. When these are saved to a hard drive, their true nature becomes a bit more obvious. I believe there are other reasons, those two are enough for me, though. No, I can't point you to a web page. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message .net... Thanks Charles. Your suggestion sounds a bit more efficient than what I described. I would be interested, however, in what the reasons for not opening an attachment directly from the email message. I do make it a practice to save attachments that might be malware and check them with my AV program. Where there remains a question, I simply delete the entire message. But if there are other technical reasons for saving and then opening say a WORD attachment, if you could point me to a web site that might provide that info, I'd be most grateful. Kindest regards, PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits. Then send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons to not open attachments directly from email. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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Saving edits in MS-Word email attachments?
Thanks, Suzanne. I knew that the attachment, when opened, went into a
subdirectory below the IE5 directory. But was unaware that the edited attachment was deleted when I closed WORD. BTW, I know the Fairhope area quite well, having attended Spring Hill College and working in the Mobile area for several years. Hope the storms this past fall didn't do much, if any damage there. Used to drive across the River Styx quite often on the way to Pensacola. Kindest regards, PJF "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... When you open an attachment directly from an email, it is saved in a temporary folder, and all the edits you make to it are made to a temporary file, which is deleted when you close Word. When you forward an email with an attachment, you are forwarding the email with the original attachment; there is no way to forward an email with an edited attachment, since the edits are not made to the actual attached file. -- 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. "PJF" wrote in message .net... Thanks Charles. Your suggestion sounds a bit more efficient than what I described. I would be interested, however, in what the reasons for not opening an attachment directly from the email message. I do make it a practice to save attachments that might be malware and check them with my AV program. Where there remains a question, I simply delete the entire message. But if there are other technical reasons for saving and then opening say a WORD attachment, if you could point me to a web site that might provide that info, I'd be most grateful. Kindest regards, PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits. Then send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons to not open attachments directly from email. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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Saving edits in MS-Word email attachments?
Again, thanks Charles. So far I haven't run into the double filename
extension since I always deleted the message with an attachment that looked the least bit suspicious. Thanks for the reminder! PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The two big reasons are malware, which may or may not escape your virus scan, and that it is very easy to lose things opened directly from an email. One gimmic that creators of malware have been known to use is double filename extensions so that something looks like a document file in an attachment but is really a vbscript or an exe file. When these are saved to a hard drive, their true nature becomes a bit more obvious. I believe there are other reasons, those two are enough for me, though. No, I can't point you to a web page. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message .net... Thanks Charles. Your suggestion sounds a bit more efficient than what I described. I would be interested, however, in what the reasons for not opening an attachment directly from the email message. I do make it a practice to save attachments that might be malware and check them with my AV program. Where there remains a question, I simply delete the entire message. But if there are other technical reasons for saving and then opening say a WORD attachment, if you could point me to a web site that might provide that info, I'd be most grateful. Kindest regards, PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits. Then send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons to not open attachments directly from email. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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Saving edits in MS-Word email attachments?
Sample double-extension filename:
"ClassReunion.doc ..exe" What shows up under attachments is "ClassReunion.doc" because the real extension is off the screen. When you put it in Windows, it will give you an exe icon rather than a Word icon and you may actually see the whole name if you simply click on the file. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message ink.net... Again, thanks Charles. So far I haven't run into the double filename extension since I always deleted the message with an attachment that looked the least bit suspicious. Thanks for the reminder! PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The two big reasons are malware, which may or may not escape your virus scan, and that it is very easy to lose things opened directly from an email. One gimmic that creators of malware have been known to use is double filename extensions so that something looks like a document file in an attachment but is really a vbscript or an exe file. When these are saved to a hard drive, their true nature becomes a bit more obvious. I believe there are other reasons, those two are enough for me, though. No, I can't point you to a web page. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message .net... Thanks Charles. Your suggestion sounds a bit more efficient than what I described. I would be interested, however, in what the reasons for not opening an attachment directly from the email message. I do make it a practice to save attachments that might be malware and check them with my AV program. Where there remains a question, I simply delete the entire message. But if there are other technical reasons for saving and then opening say a WORD attachment, if you could point me to a web site that might provide that info, I'd be most grateful. Kindest regards, PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits. Then send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons to not open attachments directly from email. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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Again, thanks Charles for your further elaboration.
Kindest regards, PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... Sample double-extension filename: "ClassReunion.doc .exe" What shows up under attachments is "ClassReunion.doc" because the real extension is off the screen. When you put it in Windows, it will give you an exe icon rather than a Word icon and you may actually see the whole name if you simply click on the file. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message ink.net... Again, thanks Charles. So far I haven't run into the double filename extension since I always deleted the message with an attachment that looked the least bit suspicious. Thanks for the reminder! PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The two big reasons are malware, which may or may not escape your virus scan, and that it is very easy to lose things opened directly from an email. One gimmic that creators of malware have been known to use is double filename extensions so that something looks like a document file in an attachment but is really a vbscript or an exe file. When these are saved to a hard drive, their true nature becomes a bit more obvious. I believe there are other reasons, those two are enough for me, though. No, I can't point you to a web page. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message .net... Thanks Charles. Your suggestion sounds a bit more efficient than what I described. I would be interested, however, in what the reasons for not opening an attachment directly from the email message. I do make it a practice to save attachments that might be malware and check them with my AV program. Where there remains a question, I simply delete the entire message. But if there are other technical reasons for saving and then opening say a WORD attachment, if you could point me to a web site that might provide that info, I'd be most grateful. Kindest regards, PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits. Then send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons to not open attachments directly from email. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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Amazing how many NG readers are familiar with this area. We had little
damage in Fairhope, but the Grand Hotel in Point Clear is still making a painful recovery, which has really hurt business downtown, which depends heavily on tourist trade. -- 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. "PJF" wrote in message .net... Thanks, Suzanne. I knew that the attachment, when opened, went into a subdirectory below the IE5 directory. But was unaware that the edited attachment was deleted when I closed WORD. BTW, I know the Fairhope area quite well, having attended Spring Hill College and working in the Mobile area for several years. Hope the storms this past fall didn't do much, if any damage there. Used to drive across the River Styx quite often on the way to Pensacola. Kindest regards, PJF "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... When you open an attachment directly from an email, it is saved in a temporary folder, and all the edits you make to it are made to a temporary file, which is deleted when you close Word. When you forward an email with an attachment, you are forwarding the email with the original attachment; there is no way to forward an email with an edited attachment, since the edits are not made to the actual attached file. -- 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. "PJF" wrote in message .net... Thanks Charles. Your suggestion sounds a bit more efficient than what I described. I would be interested, however, in what the reasons for not opening an attachment directly from the email message. I do make it a practice to save attachments that might be malware and check them with my AV program. Where there remains a question, I simply delete the entire message. But if there are other technical reasons for saving and then opening say a WORD attachment, if you could point me to a web site that might provide that info, I'd be most grateful. Kindest regards, PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits. Then send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons to not open attachments directly from email. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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I just tried this.
1) Open attachment from email. 2) Make changes. 3) Close document. When asked to save changes, click Yes. 4) Open attachment again from email. The changes are there. 5) Forward email with attachment to self. The changes are there. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: When you open an attachment directly from an email, it is saved in a temporary folder, and all the edits you make to it are made to a temporary file, which is deleted when you close Word. When you forward an email with an attachment, you are forwarding the email with the original attachment; there is no way to forward an email with an edited attachment, since the edits are not made to the actual attached file. -- 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. "PJF" wrote in message .net... Thanks Charles. Your suggestion sounds a bit more efficient than what I described. I would be interested, however, in what the reasons for not opening an attachment directly from the email message. I do make it a practice to save attachments that might be malware and check them with my AV program. Where there remains a question, I simply delete the entire message. But if there are other technical reasons for saving and then opening say a WORD attachment, if you could point me to a web site that might provide that info, I'd be most grateful. Kindest regards, PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits. Then send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons to not open attachments directly from email. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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Glad that works for you. Try closing Word or rebooting Windows and then
opening the original email again. -- 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. "Gitche Gumee" wrote in message ... I just tried this. 1) Open attachment from email. 2) Make changes. 3) Close document. When asked to save changes, click Yes. 4) Open attachment again from email. The changes are there. 5) Forward email with attachment to self. The changes are there. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: When you open an attachment directly from an email, it is saved in a temporary folder, and all the edits you make to it are made to a temporary file, which is deleted when you close Word. When you forward an email with an attachment, you are forwarding the email with the original attachment; there is no way to forward an email with an edited attachment, since the edits are not made to the actual attached file. -- 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. "PJF" wrote in message .net... Thanks Charles. Your suggestion sounds a bit more efficient than what I described. I would be interested, however, in what the reasons for not opening an attachment directly from the email message. I do make it a practice to save attachments that might be malware and check them with my AV program. Where there remains a question, I simply delete the entire message. But if there are other technical reasons for saving and then opening say a WORD attachment, if you could point me to a web site that might provide that info, I'd be most grateful. Kindest regards, PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits. Then send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons to not open attachments directly from email. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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I exited Word, exited Outlook, then rebooted. The changes persist.
The file is located in Temporary Internet Files in the OLK folder. Upon further testing, though, I note that if I exit Outlook before saving the open attachment and then close the attachment, Word will ask if I want to save changes but clicking Yes will not save the changes to the original attachment. Instead, without indicating it is doing so, Word appends a number to the end of the document title, then saves the document as a separate document in the OLK folder with the new name. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Glad that works for you. Try closing Word or rebooting Windows and then opening the original email again. -- 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. "Gitche Gumee" wrote in message ... I just tried this. 1) Open attachment from email. 2) Make changes. 3) Close document. When asked to save changes, click Yes. 4) Open attachment again from email. The changes are there. 5) Forward email with attachment to self. The changes are there. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: When you open an attachment directly from an email, it is saved in a temporary folder, and all the edits you make to it are made to a temporary file, which is deleted when you close Word. When you forward an email with an attachment, you are forwarding the email with the original attachment; there is no way to forward an email with an edited attachment, since the edits are not made to the actual attached file. -- 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. "PJF" wrote in message .net... Thanks Charles. Your suggestion sounds a bit more efficient than what I described. I would be interested, however, in what the reasons for not opening an attachment directly from the email message. I do make it a practice to save attachments that might be malware and check them with my AV program. Where there remains a question, I simply delete the entire message. But if there are other technical reasons for saving and then opening say a WORD attachment, if you could point me to a web site that might provide that info, I'd be most grateful. Kindest regards, PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits. Then send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons to not open attachments directly from email. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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Many thanks. I'll give your procedure a try.
Regards, PJF "Gitche Gumee" wrote in message ... I just tried this. 1) Open attachment from email. 2) Make changes. 3) Close document. When asked to save changes, click Yes. 4) Open attachment again from email. The changes are there. 5) Forward email with attachment to self. The changes are there. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: When you open an attachment directly from an email, it is saved in a temporary folder, and all the edits you make to it are made to a temporary file, which is deleted when you close Word. When you forward an email with an attachment, you are forwarding the email with the original attachment; there is no way to forward an email with an edited attachment, since the edits are not made to the actual attached file. -- 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. "PJF" wrote in message .net... Thanks Charles. Your suggestion sounds a bit more efficient than what I described. I would be interested, however, in what the reasons for not opening an attachment directly from the email message. I do make it a practice to save attachments that might be malware and check them with my AV program. Where there remains a question, I simply delete the entire message. But if there are other technical reasons for saving and then opening say a WORD attachment, if you could point me to a web site that might provide that info, I'd be most grateful. Kindest regards, PJF "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... The only way I would try to do this is to save the attachment (without opening it) to the hard drive. Edit it there and save with the edits. Then send it elsewhere as an attachment. There are a number of good reasons to not open attachments directly from email. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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What he should have done was select Send from the File menu in Word when he
had the modified document as the activedocument. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "PJF" wrote in message nk.net... I sent a WORD document as an attachment to an email. The person who received it edited in some comments and attempted to send the edited document back to me. He did not hit REPLY since that deletes the attachments. So he FORWARDED the original email and with the edited attached WORD document to me. But.....the edits were missing when I opened the attached WORD document. He opened his edited WORD document that he had sent me attached to the forwarded email and found the edits had not been saved. Question: is there a way of editing a WORD attachment, saving it including the edits and sending it back to the original sender without opening the original WORD document and saving it to a directory, then, when returning the edited document attach it to a reply email message? Any solutions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, PJF |
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