how to open an excel document saved in a temporay file

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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.
 
D

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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MDubbelboer

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

it probably uses your default temporary directory. To find out wha
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 yo

the windows search didn't work for you
 
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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?
 
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