Take the 2-minute tour ×  If you open (not save) a Word
attachment in Windows Mail, then it will open the document up in
Microsoft Word. This is saved somewhere, and you can edit the
file and save it (i.e. no "save as" dialog appears). If you then
close Word without explicitly saving the file somewhere, how do
you then find the edited file? (Assuming that it can be found,
and isn't automatically deleted).  Windows Search does not find
the file (presumably because it's in the folders that are
excluded from search).  share|improve this question  2 Answers 2
It's probably either in the Windows temporary directory, which
is by default in "C:\Windows\Temp", or in the user's temporary
directory which is in "C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Local
Settings\Temp\".  If you're looking for a good file-search
engine, and if your disk is formatted as NTFS, see the
Everything search engine.  share|improve this answer If it can
help someone, it was in temporary internet files. (I wonder why
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