Re: saving word document
From: Suzanne S. Barnhill (sbarnhill_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/01/04
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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:54:34 -0600
If you Save As to a specific folder, this folder will be the default the
next time you save, so you really waste time only once. It may also make a
difference whether the "temp folder" you're using is one you have
established or the one Windows or your email client is using as a temp
folder.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "hes" <hes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B9F0DE53-0B13-429D-87C9-4465BA362945@microsoft.com... > Thanks for the info. We are emailing documents from virus-free environments > & in the past 3 days have twice lost hours of work because of this very > serious flaw in the Word XP system. This did not use to be the case with > earlier versions of Word. We could do "save-as" in the temp directory & > still have the document(s) available when we exited Word. In our work > environment, we have multiple deadlines & folks emailing versions of docs > back-and-forth, so doing a "save-as" to a different folder involves an extra > step that we never have had to take before. > > "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: > > > When you open a document directly from an email, it is stored in a temp > > folder, and it is deleted when you quit Word (no matter how many times > > you've saved it). You should not open documents directly from email (it's > > dangerous, anyway) but instead use Save As to save them to a proper document > > folder, then open them from there. > > > > -- > > Suzanne S. Barnhill > > Microsoft MVP (Word) > > Words into Type > > Fairhope, Alabama USA > > Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org > > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so > > all may benefit. > > > > "hes" <hes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:C04EE0AB-2510-443C-AF8A-D5BA162F2CB9@microsoft.com... > > > I opened a word doc from an email. As I worked & modified it, I saved it > > > numerous times. When I exited the document, I again saved it. Upon > > trying > > > to reopen, however, neither Word cannot find the document, nor is it in > > the > > > temp directory where it was originally opened. How do I retrieve it? > > > >
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