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Luiz Horacio - 30 Jul 2003 02:58 GMT

Hi,

I need to convert a lot of Word files to text format. It would be no problem
if I could use batch conversion, but more or less one year ago I got a virus
and after I cleaned it up most of my files became .DOT files.

I tried to change the extension, but no use. Batch conversion don't accept
.DOT files, only .DOC. The biggest problem is that there are 10000+ files,
and it would take forever to open and save them in a one-by-one procedure.

Can someone help me with this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

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Luiz Horacio
lhoracio@iname.com

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macropod - 30 Jul 2003 09:03 GMT

Hi Luiz,

Probably the easiest way to do a bulk rename from *.dot to
*.doc is from the command line.

Start a DOS seesion, navigate to the folder holding the
files you need to convert, then type:

REN *.dot *.doc

It's that simple. If there are any files in that folder
that shouldn't be changed, temporarily move them to
another folder before doing the above.

Cheers
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