friend of mine sent herself a word doc as an attachment, she opened it up on
another computer without first saving it to the hard drive of the second
computer. After she made changes to the doc she saved it. and now she can't
find it on her computer. This is using office 2003, and she is using hotmail
to send email

One of many reasons for not opening attachments directly from email,
especially if they will be saved for use later. Instead, save to hard disk
location and open from that location.

With Word still open, try the recent files list under the file menu. If
found this way, save to a real location.

Otherwise, check Start My Recent Documents. It might be there.

If the computer has been restarted, chances of it being gone are high
because attachements opened directly from email are generally stored in
temporary folders. The name says it all.
--
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!
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"dineman" wrote in message
...
friend of mine sent herself a word doc as an attachment, she opened it up
on
another computer without first saving it to the hard drive of the second
computer. After she made changes to the doc she saved it. and now she
can't
find it on her computer. This is using office 2003, and she is using
hotmail
to send email

It's saved in a temp folder and deleted when you close Word.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"dineman" wrote in message
...
friend of mine sent herself a word doc as an attachment, she opened it up
on
another computer without first saving it to the hard drive of the second
computer. After she made changes to the doc she saved it. and now she
can't
find it on her computer. This is using office 2003, and she is using
hotmail
to send email

dineman wrote:
friend of mine sent herself a word doc as an attachment, she opened
it up on another computer without first saving it to the hard drive
of the second computer. After she made changes to the doc she saved
it. and now she can't find it on her computer. This is using office
2003, and she is using hotmail to send email

When you open an attachment without saving it first, it's a temporary file
in a temporary folder. If you just hit Save, your edits go into that temp
location, and when you close Word the whole thing vanishes. It isn't
anywhere... sorry!

The lesson is that if you're going to edit an attachment, not just read it,
then you MUST use File Save As to make a permanent copy. It's best to do
that from the mail reader BEFORE you open the file, although it will work if
you remember to do it from Word after editing but before closing.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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