[Tony D]

I am attempting to recover a WORD document that I've lost by doing the
following: I had opened Outlook Express and then a WORD document within an
e-mail. I updated the WORD document, saved it, and closed the e-mail. I was
expecting Outlook to ask whether I wished to save the changes to the e-mail,
but it did not and I lost the updates to the WORD document. I now know the
root cause to prevent this from happening again in the future, but is there a
way to locate the WORD file containing the updates? Please help. Thanks.

[CyberTaz]

In the future always save the attachment to your hard drive & edit that
file. The changes you make directly to an attachment essentially get
dispersed into the ionosphere.
--
Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"Tony D" Tony wrote in message
...
I am attempting to recover a WORD document that I've lost by doing the
following: I had opened Outlook Express and then a WORD document within
an
e-mail. I updated the WORD document, saved it, and closed the e-mail. I
was
expecting Outlook to ask whether I wished to save the changes to the
e-mail,
but it did not and I lost the updates to the WORD document. I now know
the
root cause to prevent this from happening again in the future, but is
there a
way to locate the WORD file containing the updates? Please help. Thanks.

[Poprivet]

Tony D wrote:
I am attempting to recover a WORD document that I've lost by doing the
following: I had opened Outlook Express and then a WORD document
within an e-mail. I updated the WORD document, saved it, and closed
the e-mail. I was expecting Outlook to ask whether I wished to save
the changes to the e-mail, but it did not and I lost the updates to
the WORD document. I now know the root cause to prevent this from
happening again in the future, but is there a way to locate the WORD
file containing the updates? Please help. Thanks.

Why can't you just re-open that e-mail?

Pop`

[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

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Tony D wrote:
I am attempting to recover a WORD document that I've lost by doing the
following: I had opened Outlook Express and then a WORD document
within an e-mail. I updated the WORD document, saved it, and closed
the e-mail. I was expecting Outlook to ask whether I wished to save
the changes to the e-mail, but it did not and I lost the updates to
the WORD document. I now know the root cause to prevent this from
happening again in the future, but is there a way to locate the WORD
file containing the updates? Please help. Thanks.

[Graham Mayor]

Poprivet wrote:
Tony D wrote:
I am attempting to recover a WORD document that I've lost by doing
the following: I had opened Outlook Express and then a WORD document
within an e-mail. I updated the WORD document, saved it, and closed
the e-mail. I was expecting Outlook to ask whether I wished to save
the changes to the e-mail, but it did not and I lost the updates to
the WORD document. I now know the root cause to prevent this from
happening again in the future, but is there a way to locate the WORD
file containing the updates? Please help. Thanks.

Why can't you just re-open that e-mail?

Pop`

Because it won't have the edits.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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