I cannot find a word document I opened as an email attachment

[spooked1]

I opened a word 2010 document from an email in windows live mail desktop version and made some lengthy changes. Now I cannot find the document on my windows 7 system anywhere.

Please help

Peter

 

[koolkat77]

a very obvious question which is.. did you save it in your computer? you may also check the recent docs you opened by going to file>recent

 

[Neutron16]

Another option is to check Temp folder.
Open Explorer and type in address bar

%temp%

hit Enter.

 

[Imperfect1]

Following up on koolkat's suggestion of looking at Files, Recent, I would suggest you go to Windows Explorer and look in your actual "Recent Items" folder in your C: drive, because there you will find ALL of your recent (and not so recent) items. The "Recent Items" folder can be found by following this path: C:\Users\{name}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent