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Comprehensive document creation, editing, and analysis with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, and text extraction. When Claude needs to work with professional documents (.docx files) for creating new documents, modifying content, working with tracked changes, or adding comments.

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Sourceskillcreatorai/ai-agent-skills

Added on2026-02-13

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add skillcreatorai/ai-agent-skills docx

SKILL.md Content

DOCX Processing

Workflow Decision Tree

Reading/Analyzing: Use text extraction or raw XML access
Creating New Document: Use docx-js (JavaScript)
Editing Existing: Use OOXML editing or redlining workflow

Reading Content

Text Extraction with Pandoc

bash

# Convert to markdown with tracked changes
pandoc --track-changes=all file.docx -o output.md

Raw XML Access

bash

# Unpack document
unzip document.docx -d unpacked/
# Key files:
# word/document.xml - Main content
# word/comments.xml - Comments
# word/media/ - Images

Creating New Documents (docx-js)

javascript

import { Document, Paragraph, TextRun, Packer } from 'docx';
import fs from 'fs';

const doc = new Document({
  sections: [{
    children: [
      new Paragraph({
        children: [
          new TextRun({ text: "Hello ", bold: true }),
          new TextRun({ text: "World", italics: true })
        ]
      })
    ]
  }]
});

const buffer = await Packer.toBuffer(doc);
fs.writeFileSync('document.docx', buffer);

Editing Existing Documents

Simple Edits

Unpack:
```
unzip doc.docx -d unpacked/
```
Edit
```
word/document.xml
```
Repack:
```
cd unpacked && zip -r ../edited.docx .
```

Tracked Changes (Redlining)

For professional documents, use tracked changes:

xml

<!-- Deletion -->
<w:del w:author="Author" w:date="2025-01-01T00:00:00Z">
  <w:r><w:delText>old text</w:delText></w:r>
</w:del>

<!-- Insertion -->
<w:ins w:author="Author" w:date="2025-01-01T00:00:00Z">
  <w:r><w:t>new text</w:t></w:r>
</w:ins>

Converting to Images

bash

# DOCX to PDF
soffice --headless --convert-to pdf document.docx

# PDF to images
pdftoppm -jpeg -r 150 document.pdf page

Best Practices

Use Pandoc for text extraction
Use docx-js for creating new documents
For legal/business docs, always use tracked changes
Preserve original RSIDs when editing