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Recovering Word document opened up as email attachment
Power surge wiped out my pc. Can't find my doc that I opened up from web
mail attachment. I was saving repeatedly but it was still as an attachment. Any way my latest changes can be recovered? I'm on a tight deadline and need to know how within the hour. Thanks! |
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Recovering Word document opened up as email attachment
When you open an attachment directly, unless you immediately Save As, the
document is open (and saved) in a temp folder. When you close Word, the file is deleted. Since you didn't close Word normally, however, there's a chance that the file still exists or that an AutoRecovery backup was saved. If you have opened Word again and it didn't present a backup, then perhaps you don't have that option enabled. But if the file is listed at the bottom of the File menu, you can try clicking on it to see if there's a chance of still opening it. If so, immediately Save As to My Documents (or wherever you keep your Word docs). -- 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. "cc" wrote in message ... Power surge wiped out my pc. Can't find my doc that I opened up from web mail attachment. I was saving repeatedly but it was still as an attachment. Any way my latest changes can be recovered? I'm on a tight deadline and need to know how within the hour. Thanks! |
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Recovering Word document opened up as email attachment
For future reference, do go to Tools, Options, Save in Word. The default
save is 10 minutes. What part of 10 minutes are you willing to lose in a crash? I changed mine to two minutes. I have found - at least in older versions of Word - that if a document did not restore when I closed and reopened Word that sometimes it would when I rebooted but probably not if you didn't save at least once. You should also look under Tools, Options, then in the File Locations folder, click on AutoRecover files, then Modify, to know where your recovered files are stored. -- madamx "cc" wrote: Power surge wiped out my pc. Can't find my doc that I opened up from web mail attachment. I was saving repeatedly but it was still as an attachment. Any way my latest changes can be recovered? I'm on a tight deadline and need to know how within the hour. Thanks! |
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Recovering Word document opened up as email attachment
Word does *not* have an option to automatically save the document
periodically. The option that you refer to is autorecovery information. This *may* have helped the OP have a greater chance of restarting Word recovering the document, but has nothing to do with the issue here. The OP has saved the document in a transient temporary folder that may no longer exist. In those circumstances only file recovery software would possibly stand a chance of recovering the file. If you want a true backup function - see http://www.gmayor.com/automatically_backup.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org How to link or embed objects in Word wrote: For future reference, do go to Tools, Options, Save in Word. The default save is 10 minutes. What part of 10 minutes are you willing to lose in a crash? I changed mine to two minutes. I have found - at least in older versions of Word - that if a document did not restore when I closed and reopened Word that sometimes it would when I rebooted but probably not if you didn't save at least once. You should also look under Tools, Options, then in the File Locations folder, click on AutoRecover files, then Modify, to know where your recovered files are stored. Power surge wiped out my pc. Can't find my doc that I opened up from web mail attachment. I was saving repeatedly but it was still as an attachment. Any way my latest changes can be recovered? I'm on a tight deadline and need to know how within the hour. Thanks! |
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