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We use office 365. We have a LOT of old "doc" documents and Word saves in that format when opened in that format to preserve compatibility. Is there a way to force Word to save all "doc" documents that are opened as "doc" files to "docx". I know I can change them all to docx very easily using VBA however I DON'T want dates changed on documents either. That is its important to keep the date of when a document was last accessed. Of course is someone can recommend some VBA code that will change a doc to a docx that does NOT change the date of the document that's would work as well.

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Your macro could lock all the Date and SaveDate fields before saving the file as docx.
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My Document Converter add-in will update the files to the latest format and retain the file creation and last modified dates (not the last accessed date) . It will also retain the original files, which is probably sensible - at least while testing.

Test it with a small number of documents, copied to a new folder, to ensure that it does what you require, before letting it loose on a larger selection of documents.

It does not work with Office 2007!
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My Document Converter add-in will update the files to the latest format and retain the file creation and last modified dates (not the last accessed date) . It will also retain the original files, which is probably sensible - at least while testing.

Test it with a small number of documents, copied to a new folder, to ensure that it does what you require, before letting it loose on a larger selection of documents.

It does not work with Office 2007!
That'd be perfect thanks. I don't need the "last accessed" date only the last date modified is important.

Thanks for your help.

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