I was reading graphic communnication rss news feeds over on Graphicstart.com when I came across this interesting one titled, "Bulk Convert Old Documents to the new Office 2007 Format". This links to the full in-depth how-to article from the web site of Digital Inspiration (labnol.org). We all have been here or have clients or firends that are- you know, tons of old Office 2003 or Office XP Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents. How do we quickly and easily get them all over to the Office 2007 format? Microsoft provides some tools and the article outlines the steps, which in brief are:

• Step 1: Download Migration Manager kit...
• Step 2: Download and install the Office Pack...
• Step 3: open ofc.ini using notepad and add the following line: fldr=c:\users\labnol\documents
• Step 4: Open command prompt and go to c:\office\tools. There you’ll see a utility called ofc.exe - this is the Office File Converter that will convert all old Office files to the new 2007 Office document format in bulk. Run.

SOURCE: http://www.labnol.org/software/bulk-convert-office-documents-in-2007-format/4291/

For full details on all of these steps, view the full article here.