saving word document

[Guest]

I opened a word doc from an email. As I worked & modified it, I saved it
numerous times. When I exited the document, I again saved it. Upon trying
to reopen, however, neither Word cannot find the document, nor is it in the
temp directory where it was originally opened. How do I retrieve it?

 

[Chuck Davis]

-----Original Message-----
I opened a word doc from an email. As I worked & modified it, I saved it
numerous times. When I exited the document, I again saved it. Upon trying
to reopen, however, neither Word cannot find the document, nor is it in the
temp directory where it was originally opened. How do I retrieve it?
.

You may open the e-mail message and when you know the name
of the document, open Windows Explorer and do a search.
Don't save this over your previous modified version.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When you open a document directly from an email, it is stored in a temp
folder, and it is deleted when you quit Word (no matter how many times
you've saved it). You should not open documents directly from email (it's
dangerous, anyway) but instead use Save As to save them to a proper document
folder, then open them from there.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thanks for the info. We are emailing documents from virus-free environments
& in the past 3 days have twice lost hours of work because of this very
serious flaw in the Word XP system. This did not use to be the case with
earlier versions of Word. We could do "save-as" in the temp directory &
still have the document(s) available when we exited Word. In our work
environment, we have multiple deadlines & folks emailing versions of docs
back-and-forth, so doing a "save-as" to a different folder involves an extra
step that we never have had to take before.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you Save As to a specific folder, this folder will be the default the
next time you save, so you really waste time only once. It may also make a
difference whether the "temp folder" you're using is one you have
established or the one Windows or your email client is using as a temp
folder.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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