I've spent ages COMPOSING an e-mail on my Hotmail account and (because Hotmail only spell-checks the first 2000 characters) I wanted to copy it to a work document to spell check. I'd usually, simply select, click Cntrl+C to copy, then Ctrl+V to paste. By mistake, I selected it all and pressed Ctrl+V and it's disappeared. Ther's no undo function, so is there any possibilty to retrieve it, or is it lost altogether? CTRL + Z to undo?

Not sure if Hotmail does this or not, but does it save any draft messages?I've tried Ctrl+Z and nothing happens. It doesn't show (ie in bold) that there's a message in my drafts folder, but if I try to look I then have to navigate away from the page and that keeps telling me the message hasn't been sent and will be lost.

I'm gutted. It was a huge long mail and I can't possibly remember all that was in it.Are you sure you've clicked in the text area and press CTRL + Z?

Try opening another browser window and go to your email and look in the drafts folder.Yes, thanks CD, I've done both those things and it still doesn't work.So not in the draft either?

I think you may have lost it then....

Do you think you may have press CTRL + X instead of CTRL + v?
In any case, open a notepad file or Microsoft Word document and press CTRL + V to make sure.Thanks for all you HELP CD. I tried all that, but didn't work.

It's lost, so I've got to PUT it down to a lesson learned!

*censored* hotmail for not having an undo button!!!I don't think any web-based email client has an undo button. It's just CTRL + Z.
Not sure why you can't do it THOUGH. (assuming you haven't left the page or closed the browser)You may want to consider composing long e-mails in a word processing app and then copy and paste it in future so you don't lose everything.....