[Linda]

I was working in word 2007 and when I closed out, it asked me to save can I
retrieve that file? I had saved it several times while working on it.

[Peter T. Daniels]

Assuming it wasn't a file you'd opened from an email attachment, then
the last saved version should be exactly where you left it. But you
can't retrieve the changes you made after the last time you saved it.

(If it had been opened from an email attachment, then you were
"saving" it to a temp folder, and it went away when you closed Word.)

On Nov 28, 4:35*pm, Linda wrote:
I was working in word 2007 and when I closed out, it asked me to save can I
retrieve that file? I had saved it several times while working on it.

[Yves Dhondt]

If you open an attachment in Word 2007 and try to save it, it will pop up
the "Save As" dialog the first time and suggest to store the document in
your "documents" (default) folder. It does not save your document in some
temp internet folder as you claim ...

Yves

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...
Assuming it wasn't a file you'd opened from an email attachment, then
the last saved version should be exactly where you left it. But you
can't retrieve the changes you made after the last time you saved it.

(If it had been opened from an email attachment, then you were
"saving" it to a temp folder, and it went away when you closed Word.)

On Nov 28, 4:35 pm, Linda wrote:
I was working in word 2007 and when I closed out, it asked me to save can
I
retrieve that file? I had saved it several times while working on it.

[Greg Maxey[_2_]]

Yves,

Brace yourself ;-)

"Yves Dhondt" wrote in message
...
If you open an attachment in Word 2007 and try to save it, it will pop up
the "Save As" dialog the first time and suggest to store the document in
your "documents" (default) folder. It does not save your document in some
temp internet folder as you claim ...

Yves

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...
Assuming it wasn't a file you'd opened from an email attachment, then
the last saved version should be exactly where you left it. But you
can't retrieve the changes you made after the last time you saved it.

(If it had been opened from an email attachment, then you were
"saving" it to a temp folder, and it went away when you closed Word.)

On Nov 28, 4:35 pm, Linda wrote:
I was working in word 2007 and when I closed out, it asked me to save can
I
retrieve that file? I had saved it several times while working on it.

[Gordon Bentley-Mix[_2_]]

This could be fun... :-P
--
Cheers!

Gordon Bentley-Mix
Word MVP

"Yves Dhondt" wrote in message
...
If you open an attachment in Word 2007 and try to save it, it will pop up
the "Save As" dialog the first time and suggest to store the document in
your "documents" (default) folder. It does not save your document in some
temp internet folder as you claim ...

Yves

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...
Assuming it wasn't a file you'd opened from an email attachment, then
the last saved version should be exactly where you left it. But you
can't retrieve the changes you made after the last time you saved it.

(If it had been opened from an email attachment, then you were
"saving" it to a temp folder, and it went away when you closed Word.)

On Nov 28, 4:35 pm, Linda wrote:
I was working in word 2007 and when I closed out, it asked me to save can
I
retrieve that file? I had saved it several times while working on it.

[Peter T. Daniels]

That's why I put "scare quotes" around the word "saving."

On Nov 28, 6:24*pm, "Yves Dhondt" wrote:
If you open an attachment in Word 2007 and try to save it, it will pop up
the "Save As" dialog the first time and suggest to store the document in
your "documents" (default) folder. It does not save your document in some
temp internet folder as you claim ...

Yves

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ...
Assuming it wasn't a file you'd opened from an email attachment, then
the last saved version should be exactly where you left it. But you
can't retrieve the changes you made after the last time you saved it.

(If it had been opened from an email attachment, then you were
"saving" it to a temp folder, and it went away when you closed Word.)

On Nov 28, 4:35 pm, Linda wrote:



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[Beth Melton]

Not necessarily. Ideally this is what happens but I've encountered times in
which a file opened from an email attachment was not set to read only in
Word 2007 and changes were saved in the temporary Internet files folder.

I haven't determined why this occurs but I've tested it numerous times in my
Outlook training sessions. I'll have students attach an Office document
(usually Word document) to an email and when the recipient opens the
attachment directly from the email, make a change, and then attempt to Save,
Word may or may not display the Save As dialog box.

If this is what happened then what you can try is open another Word document
from an email, display the Properties Pane (Office
Button\Prepare\Properties), and then copy/paste the location (omit the file
name in your selection) in the address bar of an Explorer window, such as My
Computer. This will get you to the general location where you can try
finding the document. Note you may need to try looking in other folders and
do a bit of searching.

It may be worthwhile to note that in Office 2010 the success rate of opening
email attachments as read-only (in what is called Protected View) has
greatly increased. Plus if you close a document without saving your changes,
even if it was never previously saved, there's a good chance most of it can
be recovered.

~Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

"Yves Dhondt" wrote in message
...
If you open an attachment in Word 2007 and try to save it, it will pop up
the "Save As" dialog the first time and suggest to store the document in
your "documents" (default) folder. It does not save your document in some
temp internet folder as you claim ...

Yves

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...
Assuming it wasn't a file you'd opened from an email attachment, then
the last saved version should be exactly where you left it. But you
can't retrieve the changes you made after the last time you saved it.

(If it had been opened from an email attachment, then you were
"saving" it to a temp folder, and it went away when you closed Word.)

On Nov 28, 4:35 pm, Linda wrote:
I was working in word 2007 and when I closed out, it asked me to save can
I
retrieve that file? I had saved it several times while working on it.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

One thing I found when investigating this issue (where Word saves
attachments in the TIF) was that Word seems to create a new folder on the
fly for each new attachment, so you really have to explore the TIF to find
anything.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Not necessarily. Ideally this is what happens but I've encountered times
in which a file opened from an email attachment was not set to read only
in Word 2007 and changes were saved in the temporary Internet files
folder.

I haven't determined why this occurs but I've tested it numerous times in
my Outlook training sessions. I'll have students attach an Office document
(usually Word document) to an email and when the recipient opens the
attachment directly from the email, make a change, and then attempt to
Save, Word may or may not display the Save As dialog box.

If this is what happened then what you can try is open another Word
document from an email, display the Properties Pane (Office
Button\Prepare\Properties), and then copy/paste the location (omit the
file name in your selection) in the address bar of an Explorer window,
such as My Computer. This will get you to the general location where you
can try finding the document. Note you may need to try looking in other
folders and do a bit of searching.

It may be worthwhile to note that in Office 2010 the success rate of
opening email attachments as read-only (in what is called Protected View)
has greatly increased. Plus if you close a document without saving your
changes, even if it was never previously saved, there's a good chance most
of it can be recovered.

~Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

"Yves Dhondt" wrote in message
...
If you open an attachment in Word 2007 and try to save it, it will pop up
the "Save As" dialog the first time and suggest to store the document in
your "documents" (default) folder. It does not save your document in some
temp internet folder as you claim ...

Yves

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...
Assuming it wasn't a file you'd opened from an email attachment, then
the last saved version should be exactly where you left it. But you
can't retrieve the changes you made after the last time you saved it.

(If it had been opened from an email attachment, then you were
"saving" it to a temp folder, and it went away when you closed Word.)

On Nov 28, 4:35 pm, Linda wrote:
I was working in word 2007 and when I closed out, it asked me to save
can I
retrieve that file? I had saved it several times while working on it.

[Beth Melton]

My experience has been it varies. On my computer it uses the same folder for
attachments. But in the training lab it might be the same folder every time
or as you noted, a new folder for each attachment is created. Weirdest thing
is each of the computers in the labs were built using the same image and
they're reimaged at least once a week.

~Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
One thing I found when investigating this issue (where Word saves
attachments in the TIF) was that Word seems to create a new folder on the
fly for each new attachment, so you really have to explore the TIF to find
anything.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
...
Not necessarily. Ideally this is what happens but I've encountered times
in which a file opened from an email attachment was not set to read only
in Word 2007 and changes were saved in the temporary Internet files
folder.

I haven't determined why this occurs but I've tested it numerous times in
my Outlook training sessions. I'll have students attach an Office
document (usually Word document) to an email and when the recipient opens
the attachment directly from the email, make a change, and then attempt
to Save, Word may or may not display the Save As dialog box.

If this is what happened then what you can try is open another Word
document from an email, display the Properties Pane (Office
Button\Prepare\Properties), and then copy/paste the location (omit the
file name in your selection) in the address bar of an Explorer window,
such as My Computer. This will get you to the general location where you
can try finding the document. Note you may need to try looking in other
folders and do a bit of searching.

It may be worthwhile to note that in Office 2010 the success rate of
opening email attachments as read-only (in what is called Protected View)
has greatly increased. Plus if you close a document without saving your
changes, even if it was never previously saved, there's a good chance
most of it can be recovered.

~Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

"Yves Dhondt" wrote in message
...
If you open an attachment in Word 2007 and try to save it, it will pop
up the "Save As" dialog the first time and suggest to store the document
in your "documents" (default) folder. It does not save your document in
some temp internet folder as you claim ...

Yves

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...
Assuming it wasn't a file you'd opened from an email attachment, then
the last saved version should be exactly where you left it. But you
can't retrieve the changes you made after the last time you saved it.

(If it had been opened from an email attachment, then you were
"saving" it to a temp folder, and it went away when you closed Word.)

On Nov 28, 4:35 pm, Linda wrote:
I was working in word 2007 and when I closed out, it asked me to save
can I
retrieve that file? I had saved it several times while working on it.