Thought i should share this for those that want to convert quickly word doc files to word docx files.
on open of theFiles
repeat with doc in theFiles
tell application "Microsoft Word"
open doc
save as the front document file name path of the front document & ".docx" file format format document
close front document saving no
end tell
end repeat
end open
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