Next update: Move top to bottom.
This is the last set of the total of 1076 links to the files.
Canonical was added a couple of days ago to make clear each page is unique.
It seems the http version of the page has been indexed, but on http, and Google is reluctant to change that to https. Perhaps a re-indexing on http will solve it.
It worked. Requesting indexing of the http version so that the https canonical would be found seems to have worked.
.htaccess prevents the files being index. However, there isn't a disallow in robots.txt so files can be crawled. The files should therefore gradually get un-indexed and show in Pages as not indexed due to the .htaccess tag.
Note to myself. The very old - some more than 20 years old - .doc files were converted to .docx. There were a couple of reasons for doing this conversion. The first and main reason was that these days not everybody has MS Word. Some people download the Word .doc planners and then use third party software such as OnlyOffice or LibreOffice to open the files.
Third party software such as these have improved significantly over the last couple of years. Prior to that trying to open the more involved files gave all kinds of formatting and shading errors, sometimes rendering the results unuseable. Lately tools such as these work most of the time, but occasional glitches result in errors in the files that look like the files are wrong - they're not.
So it was time to address the issue.
By chance the answer was discovered: opening a .doc with OnlyOffice led to shading errors. But when that same .doc file was converted to .docx and that file was opened the shading was perfectly as it ws supposed to be. The obvious conclusion was the old .doc files should be converted to .docx.
The other benefit of .docx files, apart from the main one that most if not all third paty office software packages can open the files correctly if they're in .docx format, is that .docx file are maybe a quarter of the size of their .doc equivalents. Now, loading time isn't an issue as the files aren't that big anyway, but the .docx files do load a bit faster which is of some benefit.
Layout of GSC changed insofar as the list of sites is in a different format.
Updated: Tuesday December 16th.
Sequence modified for the second time. Order changed.
Page sequence has been changed.
January 2nd.
End of list of links.
Wednesday November 19th all dummy docx files with link to hra nice index uploaded.
Saturday November 22nd four dummy htm pages that point to the dummy docx files uploaded.
Thursday November 27th: the original lists are in place for the moment.
Friday November 28th: pages indexed on http, new indexing requested. Less than an hour later the https version was indexed.
Saturday November 29th: Second half of links on each page put at the top of the list. A few other small changes.
Sunday Nov 30th: Minor changes.
Sequence changed.
Contents changed between pages Thursday.
Saturday December 6th contents changed between pages.
Sunday December 7th.
Tuesday December 16th.