A Windows command line script written in JavaScript for bulk exporting Word documents to other formats (DOT, PDF, etc.) Run with CScript.exe. Tested in Windows 7 with MS-Office 2010 installed.

gistfile1.js

alert = function(s) { WScript.Echo(s) }

var fso,
   folder,
	wordDoc,
	wordApp, 
	extension = 'DOT',
	fileFormat = 1, //see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff839952.aspx
	sourcePath = "\\SOURCE\\PATH\\" + extension + "\\",
	destPath = "\\DESTINATION\\PATH\\";

try {
	fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

	wordApp = new ActiveXObject("Word.Application");
	wordApp.Visible = false;

	folder = fso.GetFolder(sourcePath); 
	files = new Enumerator(folder.files);
	
   alert("Preparing ...");
	
   var fileURI, fileName;
	for(var files = new Enumerator(folder.files); !files.atEnd(); files.moveNext()) {
		fileURI = '' + files.item();
		fileName = fileURI.substr(fileURI.lastIndexOf("\\") + 1, fileURI.length - 
            fileURI.lastIndexOf("\\") -  (fileURI.length - fileURI.lastIndexOf(".") + 1));
		
      alert("exporting '" + fileName + "'...");
		
      wordDoc = wordApp.Documents.open(fileURI);
		
      alert("opened '" + fileName + "'...");
		
      wordDoc.SaveAs(destPath + fileName + "." + extension, fileFormat);
		wordDoc.close();
		
      alert("exported '" + fileName + "' to " + extension);
	}

	alert("\n\nDone!\n");

} catch (error) {
	alert(serialize(error));
} finally {
	//close handles and cleanup the memory
	fso = null;
	if (wordDoc) {
		wordDoc.Close(0);
	}
	if (wordApp) {
		wordApp.Quit();
	}
	wordDoc = null;
	wordApp = null;
	fso = null;
}

/* serialize function, thanks to http://blog.stchur.com/2007/04/06/serializing-objects-in-javascript/ */
function serialize(_obj)
{
   // Let Gecko browsers do this the easy way
   if (typeof _obj.toSource !== 'undefined' && typeof _obj.callee === 'undefined')
   {
      return _obj.toSource();
   }

   // Other browsers must do it the hard way
   switch (typeof _obj)
   {
      // numbers, booleans, and functions are trivial:
      // just return the object itself since its default .toString()
      // gives us exactly what we want
      case 'number':
      case 'boolean':
      case 'function':
         return _obj;
         break;

      // for JSON format, strings need to be wrapped in quotes
      case 'string':
         return '\'' + _obj + '\'';
         break;

      case 'object':
         var str;
         if (_obj.constructor === Array || typeof _obj.callee !== 'undefined')
         {
            str = '[';
            var i, len = _obj.length;
            for (i = 0; i < len-1; i++) { str += serialize(_obj[i]) + ','; }
            str += serialize(_obj[i]) + ']';
         }
         else
         {
            str = '{';
            var key;
            for (key in _obj) { str += key + ':' + serialize(_obj[key]) + ','; }
            str = str.replace(/\,$/, '') + '}';
         }
         return str;
         break;

      default:
         return 'UNKNOWN';
         break;
   }
}