Batch convert all .doc TO .docX, .xls TO .xlsX, etc

[GPzMike]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

Sure would be nice to bypass all the clicking and saving if I could find a batch converter to just do the conversion en masse and be done with it. Surely Microsoft, you thought of this, yes?

I can find all the backwards converters I want, including one here on Mactopia...but that's just not what I'm looking for.

Cheers!
Michael

 

[John McGhie]

Yes, they thought of it. They even set out to BUILD it... I was involved
in the planning. I don't know what happened to that idea: probably ran out
of time and money...

The idea was that the Free converter you get from Mactopia would be
available to Automator (in fact it may already be, I have not checked in OS
10.5...)

And the converter on Mactopia is not a "Backwards" converter, it's
bi-directional (which is very unusual for a Microsoft compatibility pack...)

So if you can find a way to hook it with VBA or AppleScript or Automator,
you have your batch converter.

On the other hand, you may decide not to bother: if you open a document in
2008, it will save in XML by default. So you could just leave the files as
they are, and convert them as you use them.

Cheers

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

Sure would be nice to bypass all the clicking and saving if I could find a
batch converter to just do the conversion en masse and be done with it. Surely
Microsoft, you thought of this, yes?

I can find all the backwards converters I want, including one here on
Mactopia...but that's just not what I'm looking for.

Cheers!
Michael

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[JimG]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

Sure would be nice to bypass all the clicking and saving if I could find a batch converter to just do the conversion en masse and be done with it. Surely Microsoft, you thought of this, yes?

I can find all the backwards converters I want, including one here on Mactopia...but that's just not what I'm looking for.

Cheers!
Michael

Hi Michael,

I'm confused. Did you notice that the OpenXML converter on Mactopia has
two modes of operation? It can do single files, but there's also a
batch mode.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

 

[GPzMike]

Hi Fellas!

Thanks for responding.

I downloaded the Open XML Converter v1.0.2 and messed around with it.

I did notice it does batch conversions, but when I tried to drag a .xls onto the program to be converted into .xlsx it rejected the file ('unrecognized file').

Both of you can't be wrong which means I'm being a bad software user and missing something obvious. I just don't know what that is...haha...

Ideas? Maybe I just plain got the wrong software?

Cheers!
Michael