temporary files
Good advice from the previous correspondent
A very valuable lesson about working with e mail docs
some other suggestions
1 always give a version number of a doc that will be modified many times
easy to find out if you are working on the correct one
2 When downloading the e mail attachment for the first time in a session always do "save as" to a known place on the computer such as desktop or my documents
3 If you cant find the doc try downloading another attachment using the save command and make a note of the temporary file name where the system will save the attachment
4 Once you know the path for temporary files you can search for the missing file using the search facility on window explorer hopefully you can find the file
good luck