diff --git a/resources/recipes/outlook_india.recipe b/resources/recipes/outlook_india.recipe
index 6bec491c75..1dccd468e5 100644
--- a/resources/recipes/outlook_india.recipe
+++ b/resources/recipes/outlook_india.recipe
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ class OutlookIndia(BasicNewsRecipe):
     encoding       = 'utf-8'
     language = 'en_IN'
 
-    recursions = 1
     extra_css = '''
                  body{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:xx-small;}
                 .fspheading{color:#AF0E25 ; font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-weight:bold ; font-size:large; }
diff --git a/src/calibre/manual/conversion.rst b/src/calibre/manual/conversion.rst
index 54fbc7362e..949bd9527b 100644
--- a/src/calibre/manual/conversion.rst
+++ b/src/calibre/manual/conversion.rst
@@ -418,11 +418,11 @@ Convert Microsoft Word documents
 
 |app| does not directly convert .doc files from Microsoft Word. However, in Word, you can save the document
 as HTML and then convert the resulting HTML file with |app|. When saving as HTML, be sure to use the
-"Save as filtered HTML" option as this will produce clean HTML that will convert well.
+"Save as Web Page, Filtered" option as this will produce clean HTML that will convert well.
 
 There is a Word macro package that can automate the conversion of Word documents using |app|. It also makes
 generating the Table of Contents much simpler. It is called BookCreator and is available for free
-`here <http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36098>`_.
+`here <http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28313>`_.
 
 Convert TXT documents
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/complete.py b/src/calibre/utils/complete.py
index 26b3108c0b..d196a9521b 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/complete.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/complete.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ def split(src):
 
 
 def files_and_dirs(prefix, allowed_exts=[]):
+    prefix = os.path.expanduser(prefix)
     for i in glob.iglob(prefix+'*'):
         _, ext = os.path.splitext(i)
         ext = ext.lower().replace('.', '')