When editing as an email attachment, where is the file saved?

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ppage100 - 12 Mar 2007 07:00 GMT

I had an email attachment of a Word 2003 document that I edited and simply
'saved' throughout the edit. (using Word 2007 now). When I closed the
document, I couldn't find it anywhere, not even in 'recent documents'. I know
email attachments in word are placed in a temp file in Win XP, but not sure
where they go in Vista. Help!

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Graham Mayor - 12 Mar 2007 07:25 GMT

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 . This method works for
operating systems before Vista. However if this does not help you locate the
default temp folder. Open the attachment again in Word and use file > save
as. The folder offered will be the temp folder. *DON'T SAVE* or you will
overwrite the temporary file you are looking for.

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> I had an email attachment of a Word 2003 document that I edited and
> simply 'saved' throughout the edit. (using Word 2007 now). When I
> closed the document, I couldn't find it anywhere, not even in 'recent
> documents'. I know email attachments in word are placed in a temp
> file in Win XP, but not sure where they go in Vista. Help!

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ppage100 - 12 Mar 2007 15:17 GMT

Thanks. I tried this, because it works in Outlook & WinXP, but the "save as"
in Vista goes to the documents folder. Wish MS would have something to
address this. Your site is very nice. THanks for your help...

> You should never open Word attachments directly from e-mail - however it
> *may* be possible to recover your changes. See
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> > documents'. I know email attachments in word are placed in a temp
> > file in Win XP, but not sure where they go in Vista. Help!

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Graham Mayor - 12 Mar 2007 16:30 GMT

Did you open the document directly from the e-mail message and then use save
as in Word?
If you simply save as from the message, it goes to the document directory
regardless of version.

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> Thanks. I tried this, because it works in Outlook & WinXP, but the
> "save as" in Vista goes to the documents folder. Wish MS would have
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>>> 'recent documents'. I know email attachments in word are placed in
>>> a temp file in Win XP, but not sure where they go in Vista. Help!

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ppage100 - 12 Mar 2007 17:22 GMT

unfortunately, I only saved directly in Word; did not use "save as" at all,
assuming it would work the same as in XP. It would be nice if MS would
somehow inform people of this...I dont see why we should be able to hit the
save button if it's not saving it somewhere, even in a temp file. Is there
such a temp file anywhere anymore in Vista?

> Did you open the document directly from the e-mail message and then use save
> as in Word?
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> >>> 'recent documents'. I know email attachments in word are placed in
> >>> a temp file in Win XP, but not sure where they go in Vista. Help!

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