Don’t forget to change this back later!Īnd in case that macro ever goes missing from the website linked above, I’ve pasted it here, with some additional comments. Uncheck the boxes for relevant file types that the macro got hung up on. Click Trust Center Settings, then go to File Block Settings. To include these documents in the conversion, got to File > Options in Word, then select Trust Center. If some of the DOC files are quite old, you may get a message that it cannot save Word 95 binary files (or similar), and the macro will not run.This is why it’s advisable to do these conversions in a separate folder to the original, then copy back once done. This isn’t usually an issue, but if at some point you manually saved a DOC file as DOCX, then modified it, the converted DOCX file will overwrite that modified file. If there are already DOCX files of the same name in the folder, this process will overwrite them automatically.All original date creation and modification information will be lost, and also possibly original author information (I didn’t check this). All the new DOCX files will have the current date as the date of creation.All the DOC files are opened briefly, then saved as DOCX, without your intervention.The macro only works on the selected folder. Once you are confident it works as expected, you could run the macro on the original folder. You can copy the resulting DOCX files to the correct folder later.
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I thought I’d try the macro first, and as it worked fine for what I wanted, I didn’t download and test the converter program. The two that offered the most promise were a macro from the makers of Kutools ( ) and a converter program ( ). Off to the internet to see if there was a macro or other way of batch converting DOC files to DOCX files.
While I can open each and save it as DOCX, that becomes very tedious if you have more than a few to do. I was going through some folders and found quite a number of Word files in DOC format that I created before I started using Word 2007, which was when the DOCX format was introduced.
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