List of the links to the 400 initial files

.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.