Missing documents

I am fairly new to Vista (within the last month) and yesterday I wrote a paper on my new computer. I had opened the cover sheet from an email (aol mail) that my husband sent me from my old computer. Then while saving my paper I hit save but never really thought about where it was saving it. Does anyone know how to get down into the nitty gritty and find everything on the computer? When you open the document from AOL it says it is saving it in a temporary folder but we can't find a folder with that name. Can anyone help? I am starting to feel the pain of having to write it again. thanks!

Good to have you on the board.

Do you know the name of the file you saved? If yes, click on the start button and type the file name at the white search area then the file will pop out with the path shown.

Or you can save the file again onto the desktop so you'll be sure where it is.