how to open an excel document saved in a temporay file

[Troubled Ann]

I opened an excel document sent as email attachment. I did not save it to
disk. I worked on the document while open as an attachment and saved it.
When I went back to the e-mail and opened the atttachment my changes were not
there. I have found several excel document in a temporary file but cannot
open them. The text import wizard says its delimited and it looks like it is
encrypted. Were is my saved Excel attachment and how do I open it. I'm
new to Exel and I promise I will always save to disk in the future.

[MDubbelboer]

what email client were you using to open it? different email clients save "launched" documents to different places

excel lists your X last files opened (X depends on your settings)

open your file menu within excel and see if you can see your file there.

if you know what you saved the file as do a windows search.

[Don Guillett]

As long as your promise to never do it again, use windows find to search the
HD for the filename.xls

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>I opened an excel document sent as email attachment. I did not save it to
> disk. I worked on the document while open as an attachment and saved it.
> When I went back to the e-mail and opened the atttachment my changes were
> not
> there. I have found several excel document in a temporary file but cannot
> open them. The text import wizard says its delimited and it looks like it
> is
> encrypted. Were is my saved Excel attachment and how do I open it. I'm
> new to Exel and I promise I will always save to disk in the future.

[Troubled Ann]

"MDubbelboer" wrote:

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> what email client were you using to open it?
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[MDubbelboer]

> Quest DSL with MSN Premium

hotmail/msn is blocked at work so I can't check it.

it probably uses your default temporary directory. To find out what your default temp directory is go start->run->cmd <enter>
then in the window that pops up type "echo %temp%" <enter>
have a look in the directory it gives you

the windows search didn't work for you?

[Troubled Ann]

I found my temporary directory but as in my original help request, it won't
let me open them Could they be zipped?

"MDubbelboer" wrote:

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> Troubled Ann Wrote:
> >
> > > Quest DSL with MSN Premium
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> hotmail/msn is blocked at work so I can't check it.
>
> it probably uses your default temporary directory. To find out what
> your default temp directory is go start->run->cmd <enter>
> then in the window that pops up type "echo %temp%" <enter>
> have a look in the directory it gives you
>
> the windows search didn't work for you?
>
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