Retrieving a Word document opened from Outlook

[Guest]

Hope someone can help me!

I opened a Word Document received as an attachment to an e-mail (I use
Outlook).

I worked on editing the document...for hours!

When finished, I chose 'Close' and when asked if I wanted to save my changes
I chose 'yes'.

Obviously I now see that I should have chosen 'Save as' so that I would know
where it is...but I didn't!

So now any of the searches I try show up nothing (except the document as it
was before I edited it). I reckon it's renamed automatically and saved into
some kind of temporary file or something like that?

Can anyone suggest how I can find it? many thanks in advance.

Gerry

 

[Guest]

If you open the document from outlook again, and click 'file...save as...then
you can see where it wants to put it automagically and then go search in that
folder. It'll be in documents and settings...temporary internet files, and
then probably some OLK folder or something. Do the save as and see...Hope
that helps!

 

[Guest]

Thank you for such a quick reply...wasn't expecting anyone to come back so
fast! Anyway I had actually tried that and did find the file as originally
named in a folder called OLK8...but my changes were not there, and I'm 100%
sure I clicked yes when asked if I wanted to save the changes...so maybe by
some glitch it just didn't save them...or maybe someone has another
suggestion to retrieve my work?
-
Many thanks

Gerry Manning

 

[Guest]

What you said doesn't sound right - you might want to double check. But
here's 2 more ideas:

Is it in your recently used files in Word under "File"

Use Windows search to search your whole computer. Search for the file
name, or set a couple criteria (like .doc files modified today.


Good luck

Fred

 

[Guest]

Thanks Fred...I tried these ideas too but no luck. Never mind, I've just
finished recreating the whole thing from scratch. My PC is inclined to be
glitchy and I think I just hit one.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You've just experienced one of the reasons we don't advise opening documents
directly from attachments. If all you plan to do is read the document, it's
usually okay, but if you plan to edit it, you have to be very careful to
make Save As your first action, and you might as well do that directly from
Outlook, choosing it instead of Open.

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

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