[olvido]

Hi!
I opened a Word document that was attached to an email message (in my yahoo account) with Word 2007. I did a lot of updates to the document, clicking on the "Save" icon occasionally to make sure I didn't lose the changes, and I worked hours and hours on this document. Not thinking, when I was done, I clicked on the "x" in the upper right hand corner of Word to close the document. I thought the document was saved on my desktop, but it was not anywhere! I also looked for it with the search companion, specifying the date I last modified it and putting the temporary word file extensions like *.TMP and ~*.*, but it did not help. I'm really computer illiterate but I'm trying my best, looking at all the forums, but no way!
Another thing is that I’m working on a shared computer in my school, and I cannot access to everyfile, can’t download any program, etc. I wanted help from our network administrator, he said he could not find, but I want to force every way bcs maybe he did not have much time to look for it. I would appreciate so much any ideas how I can find my document with the changes? The computer has windows XP professional version 5.1 (service pack 3, it says)

[DaveA]

First thing learn to do a "Save As" and save it where you know where it is, on any file when editing a attachment to emails.
It will save you a lot of grief..
Since you are using yahoo email I think you can kiss this file good by. As far as I know all internet mail attachments get cleared when closing out the file.

[Vikerz]

Originally Posted by olvido

Hi!
I opened a Word document that was attached to an email message (in my yahoo account) with Word 2007. I did a lot of updates to the document, clicking on the "Save" icon occasionally to make sure I didn't lose the changes, and I worked hours and hours on this document. Not thinking, when I was done, I clicked on the "x" in the upper right hand corner of Word to close the document. I thought the document was saved on my desktop, but it was not anywhere! I also looked for it with the search companion, specifying the date I last modified it and putting the temporary word file extensions like *.TMP and ~*.*, but it did not help. I'm really computer illiterate but I'm trying my best, looking at all the forums, but no way!
Another thing is that I’m working on a shared computer in my school, and I cannot access to everyfile, can’t download any program, etc. I wanted help from our network administrator, he said he could not find, but I want to force every way bcs maybe he did not have much time to look for it. I would appreciate so much any ideas how I can find my document with the changes? The computer has windows XP professional version 5.1 (service pack 3, it says)

Hi Olvido,

I agree with DaveA, i don't see any possiblity of getting recover that word file. Maybe you just click run or open directly the file and saving it not saving as. Of course, you cannot browse or access everyfile without permission because of the security given by the administrator which is the users account and the ownership of the file. Always remember that your not using outlook and most of the file you saw in your browser is in temp files unless you DL it and save it. My suggestion is start making another document and don't waste time searching that docs, it was really frustrating if at the end you still didn't find it. Cheers it's not the end of the world.