file location

[Guest]

I'm running Vista with Office 2008 and Microsoft Mail. I opened an e-mail
attachment that was an Excell file and made changes to it and inadvertently
hit 'Save' instead of 'Save as' when I closed Excell I got no warning but now
I can not find the file. I tried searching the entire drive. Does anyone know
where the file might be located?

 

[Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)]

I'm running Vista with Office 2008 and Microsoft Mail. I opened an e-mail

attachment that was an Excell file and made changes to it and
inadvertently
hit 'Save' instead of 'Save as' when I closed Excell I got no warning but
now
I can not find the file. I tried searching the entire drive. Does anyone
know
where the file might be located?

If you click the large button icon at the top and select Open, and click the
Recently Changed link, does the file show up in the list that appears?

Rick

 

[Guest]

I do not see a "recently changed link" anywhere in the open window

DaveB

 

[Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)]

Hmm! I am running Vista Ultimate and, while I am running a trial version of
Office 2007, it shows several links on the left side of the Open dialog
box.. one of them is Recently Changed which, when clicked, shows my most
recently changed Excel files. I figured this was common to Vista and Office
2007. Sorry it didn't work for you; I am not sure what to tell you.
Hopefully, someone will come along who knows more about this than I do.

Rick

 

[Guest]

Office 2008? I hope you mean 2007 - if so, if you edited it in Excel then if
you open Excel 2007 and choose Open from it's menu, then hopefully the file
will be listed in there. As I'm using Outlook 2007 not MSFT Mail, I can't
say where the file may have been stored.

You might try expanding your search to include hidden and system
folders/files.