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October 1st, 2009, 02:21 AM
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When I open a doc andclose Word, the doc isn't in Recently Opened
I often get Word .docs as attachments to email in Outlook 2003.
I click on the .doc and it opens, and I look at it. But if I close the .doc and hope to see it again in the "Recently Opened Documents" list, it isn't there. Why don't these documents show up where they are supposed to? And is there a workaround? Thanks. Don. 
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October 1st, 2009, 04:24 AM
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When I open a doc andclose Word, the doc isn't in Recently Opened
When you open a document directly from an attachment, it opens in a
temporary location and in a way doesn't really exist. It's actually a step forward for Word not to include such documents in the MRU list, which I believe it must have done in some earlier versions because I have a client who was always trying to open previously opened attachments that way and always got an error message. If you have closed Word since you opened the attachment, it is no longer in the temp folder, so even if it were listed in the MRU list, you'd get an error. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "PlarfySoober" wrote in message ... I often get Word .docs as attachments to email in Outlook 2003. I click on the .doc and it opens, and I look at it. But if I close the .doc and hope to see it again in the "Recently Opened Documents" list, it isn't there. Why don't these documents show up where they are supposed to? And is there a workaround? Thanks. Don.
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October 1st, 2009, 06:29 AM
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When I open a doc andclose Word, the doc isn't in Recently Opened
The workaround is never to open messages directly from Outlook attachments
(particularly in versions before 2007), but to save them to the hard drive first. If you have opened the documents from the message and made changes, you *may* be able to recover them. See http://www.gmayor.com/outlook_attachments.htm . Word 2007 handles things a little differently, in that it will not readily allow you to save changes to the temporary location. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org PlarfySoober wrote: I often get Word .docs as attachments to email in Outlook 2003. I click on the .doc and it opens, and I look at it. But if I close the .doc and hope to see it again in the "Recently Opened Documents" list, it isn't there. Why don't these documents show up where they are supposed to? And is there a workaround? Thanks. Don.
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