Never work on unsaved attachments in Outlook

Ever have hours worth of work disappear because you forgot to save that Word attachment to your computer before altering it? This can happen and does frequently!

When you open an attachment in Outlook by right clicking the file from an email and choose OPEN, this does not save the file to your computer in the purist sense. It saves it to a temporary location somewhere on the hard drive. Even if you click save while working on the file, then close out of the Application(Word, Excel, etc), the file will most likely be lost forever!
So if you need to work on an attachment from Outlook, always save the attachment first by right clicking on the attachment and choosing SAVE AS. After this is complete, you can double click the file you just saved on the computer and work on it from there.

Glenn