I'm running Windows 10 Home on my Desktop tower (originally Windows 7 computer)
Recently, I think Microsoft changed something, and I am no longer able to view word document AUTHORS. Let me explain;


I make daily word document files, and name them by date (ie: year/month/day/sequential call, for example 2017100501 indicates 2017, October, 5th, first call of the day)
Under FILE EXPLORER, I adjusted my view options, so I would list the Document name, and the "Author" (WHO the caller was, by name).
I have been doing this for 10 years, without problems. (YES; Different folders for each year. But they all share this new failure.)
The documents are saved in a "Word 97-2003 format" (.doc)
I have researched this problem like crazy.
Recently, the only way that I can see the "Author" name is if I save the document in the "Save As Type: WORD DOCUMENT" (.docx) format.

Naturally, we are about 200+ days into the year, and I have 200+ documents that I will have to Open, then "Save As", to convert them to the docx format, so I can refer back to them by "Author", or File Name.
(The online options to rename documents by group doesn't work as easily as I had hoped it would work)
Can anybody suggest something that I am overlooking, or un-aware of?
I don't believe that Office 2007 has come to the end of its life cycle, since Everything seems to work correctly if I save the new documents in the "docx" format.
Everything else works flawlessly, and I am very happy. This is just a minor frustration.
What am I missing?