Best practice, IMHO, is to save the attached document from your email and
then open it in Word.

The temporary document probably is saved, just not where you expect it to be
saved. You need to use Windows to search for your document by the date
modified. It should be able to find it.
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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://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"About to cry because of Word...." About to cry because of
wrote in message
...
I opened a doc from an email and, although I normally choose "Save As",
apparently I didn't this time. I made many changes and clicked the Save
icon
many times along the way. When I was finished and I closed the doc, it
was
gone...no amount of searching helped...I lost EVERYTHING with NO warning
from
Word. As far as I'm concerned, this is a HUGE problem with this
product...I
now have to recreate countless hours of changes. I'm seriously
considering
switching to Corel's WordPerfect because of this.

Is this problem EVER going to be fixed? Or at lease WARN you before you
lose hours of work?

I hate Microsoft's office suite because of issues like this...