Saving a word document with Apple Mail

Hi,
I emailed an Excel document to myself on from a remote location. When I got home, I opened it, within Apple email. I worked on the file and would hit apple-key / s to save. It would make the typical save sound.
I closed the document and shutdown. The next time I opened the document, it was not updated at all. There were no other documents of the same name on my desktop, nor in my Documents folder. Nothing but the file name in the downloaded email documents appears when I search the finder or Spotlight.
Why did this happen?
Does the updated document exist anywhere? And is it recoverable?
Thanks, John

look for that document in homefolder/library/mail downloads.
next time, drag the doc to your desktop and open from there, or if you open from Leopard Mail, then make sure you save as and point to where you would like it saved.
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