[Denise Schmidt]

I spent over an hour editing (and saving) a word document - when it was
complete, I saved and closed it. The problem is, it was still an attachment
to the email, I forgot to save it to my desktop or anywhere else on my
computer. When I opened the attachment, it was the original, without the
changes I made. Where is the document I saved? This was not done in
Outlook, it was attached to an email in a hotmail account.

Is there any hope of finding the edited document??

[Graham Mayor]

You should never open Word attachments directly from e-mail - however it
*may* be possible to recover your changes. See
http://www.gmayor.com/outlook_attachments.htm (though if the file has been
saved locally it may not be in the identical folder indicated).

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Denise Schmidt wrote:
I spent over an hour editing (and saving) a word document - when it
was complete, I saved and closed it. The problem is, it was still an
attachment to the email, I forgot to save it to my desktop or
anywhere else on my computer. When I opened the attachment, it was
the original, without the changes I made. Where is the document I
saved? This was not done in Outlook, it was attached to an email in
a hotmail account.

Is there any hope of finding the edited document??

[Denise Schmidt]

Thank you for your quick response, however, the email was in a hotmail
account, not outlook. Will that site still be able to help me find the
document? If I open the file (still attached to the email) it now adds [1]
to the end of the file name so I know my saved copy exists somewhere....


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You should never open Word attachments directly from e-mail - however it
*may* be possible to recover your changes. See
http://www.gmayor.com/outlook_attachments.htm (though if the file has been
saved locally it may not be in the identical folder indicated).

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Denise Schmidt wrote:
I spent over an hour editing (and saving) a word document - when it
was complete, I saved and closed it. The problem is, it was still an
attachment to the email, I forgot to save it to my desktop or
anywhere else on my computer. When I opened the attachment, it was
the original, without the changes I made. Where is the document I
saved? This was not done in Outlook, it was attached to an email in
a hotmail account.

Is there any hope of finding the edited document??