lost changes to word doc

[storm]

My wife was asked to edit a Word-document sent to her as an attachment
to an email.

To edit the document she opened the attachment wih Word (without
saving it first to hd) and did what she intended to do.

After having spent a couple of hours on the document, she saved it by
using the "floppy" icon in Word (she did'nt change the name of the
document).

This morning she had a painful experience: all her changes were gone,
as only the original document could be found.

My question:

is there a possibility to find (temp-files?) the changed document)?

[Nicholas]

If changes to a document are not saved, and the original
document was not saved either, then the document
no longer exists.

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Nicholas

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"storm" > wrote in message:
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| My wife was asked to edit a Word-document sent to her as an attachment
| to an email.
|=20
| To edit the document she opened the attachment wih Word (without
| saving it first to hd) and did what she intended to do.
|=20
| After having spent a couple of hours on the document, she saved it by
| using the "floppy" icon in Word (she did'nt change the name of the
| document).
|=20
| This morning she had a painful experience: all her changes were gone,
| as only the original document could be found.
|=20
| My question:
|=20
| is there a possibility to find (temp-files?) the changed document)?

[storm]

On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:03:28 -0500, "Nicholas"
> wrote:

>If changes to a document are not saved, and the original
>document was not saved either, then the document
>no longer exists.

Thank you for your reply, but she did "save" her document during the
editing-process (using the floppy icon in Word). Don't know for sure
what that implies, but I assume that then the document is saved under
its original name??

So I expected the attached Word-document had been changed, but
unfortunately that was not the case.

[mb]

Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:299430


"storm" > wrote in message
...
> My wife was asked to edit a Word-document sent to her as an attachment
> to an email.
>
> To edit the document she opened the attachment wih Word (without
> saving it first to hd) and did what she intended to do.
>
> After having spent a couple of hours on the document, she saved it by
> using the "floppy" icon in Word (she did'nt change the name of the
> document).
>
> This morning she had a painful experience: all her changes were gone,
> as only the original document could be found.
>
> My question:
>
> is there a possibility to find (temp-files?) the changed document)?

Daft question, but just to make sure: Is it in the default location for this
sort of thing i.e "My Documents" or is it on the list of recent documents in
Word?

[storm]

On Tue, 27 May 2003 17:28:44 +0200, "mb"
> wrote:

>
>"storm" > wrote in message
...
>> My wife was asked to edit a Word-document sent to her as an attachment
>> to an email.
>>
>> To edit the document she opened the attachment wih Word (without
>> saving it first to hd) and did what she intended to do.
>>
>> After having spent a couple of hours on the document, she saved it by
>> using the "floppy" icon in Word (she did'nt change the name of the
>> document).
>>
>> This morning she had a painful experience: all her changes were gone,
>> as only the original document could be found.
>>
>> My question:
>>
>> is there a possibility to find (temp-files?) the changed document)?
>
>Daft question, but just to make sure: Is it in the default location for this
>sort of thing i.e "My Documents" or is it on the list of recent documents in
>Word?
>
No the document just existed as an attachment to an email which was in
the inbox of outlook express (XP-home).

What I believe happened in this case was, that the saved version of
the attachment was overwritten and thus lost, after closing outlook
express.

[L Beck]

Have you opened Windows Explorer and done a search through your entire hard
drive for that document name? I may be mistaken, but I THINK if you save a
document that you originally opened directly from an email attachment, any
changes made are saved to a Temp folder somewhere - but don't know which one
off hand.

Hard way to learn this lesson, but if you're going to make changes to a file
received by email, either save it first to a folder where you can find it
again (i.e. My Documents), or when you save the changes always use File >
Save As... and save it as just described.


"storm" > wrote in message
...
> My wife was asked to edit a Word-document sent to her as an attachment
> to an email.
>
> To edit the document she opened the attachment wih Word (without
> saving it first to hd) and did what she intended to do.
>
> After having spent a couple of hours on the document, she saved it by
> using the "floppy" icon in Word (she did'nt change the name of the
> document).
>
> This morning she had a painful experience: all her changes were gone,
> as only the original document could be found.
>
> My question:
>
> is there a possibility to find (temp-files?) the changed document)?

[storm]

On Tue, 27 May 2003 11:26:25 -0700, "L Beck" >
wrote:

>Have you opened Windows Explorer and done a search through your entire hard
>drive for that document name? I may be mistaken, but I THINK if you save a
>document that you originally opened directly from an email attachment, any
>changes made are saved to a Temp folder somewhere - but don't know which one
>off hand.
>
>Hard way to learn this lesson, but if you're going to make changes to a file
>received by email, either save it first to a folder where you can find it
>again (i.e. My Documents), or when you save the changes always use File >
>Save As... and save it as just described.
>



>
Exactly what | thought. So I did a thorough search on the HD but
failed to find it.

After that I did a small test. Created an email plus word attachment
and opened this doc in Word. Changed the content and saved it . When I
reopened the doc the changes were there, but when I closed outlook and
reopened it the changes were gone.

And YES the lesson is learned.....(at least I hope she did learn it).