Automation: how to automate transforming .doc to .docx?

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I have a bunch of .doc files in a folder which I need to convert to .docx.

To manually convert the .doc to .docx is pretty simple:

Open .doc in Word 2007
Click on Save As...
Save it as .docx

However, doing this for hundreds of files definitely ain't fun. =p

How would you automate this?

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