Word Document File exention lower case

[Shelly Efrosinis]

I've recently converted from Word98 to Word 2002. The doc
file extenstion in Word98 was lower case but in 2002 it is
upper case. I need it to be lower case for a mail merge
application I'm using with another software. I've tried
changing the name but it does work.

Can anyone help me change my file extensions from DOC to
doc?
Thanks

 

[martinique]

Although Windows remembers the case of filenames as you provide them, it
considers upper- and lower case as equivalent, which is why it won't let you
change the case directly. If you can be bothered doing them one at a time,
change the extension to something else, then to DOC.

But is this really the problem? Windows software is not supposed to treat
filenames as case-sensitive, and I've never seen any software for which it
mattered. None of the file-handling operations built in to the operating
system will make a distinction.