If you need Claude to work with Word documents beyond basic text extraction, this handles the full complexity of the DOCX format. It provides three different workflows depending on what you're doing: creating new documents with docx-js, editing your own files with a Python OOXML library, or making tracked changes to someone else's document using a "redlining workflow" that preserves change history. The tracked changes approach is thoughtful, it converts to markdown first for planning, then implements changes in batches while only marking text that actually changed. The documentation is thorough about when to use each approach, legal and business documents require the redlining workflow, your own simple edits can use direct XML manipulation.
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- Aug 21, 2026
Install
$ npx -y skills add aiskillstore/marketplace --skill docx --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
Files
DOCX creation, editing, and analysis
Overview
A user may ask you to create, edit, or analyze the contents of a .docx file. A .docx file is essentially a ZIP archive containing XML files and other resources that you can read or edit. You have different tools and workflows available for different tasks.
Workflow Decision Tree
Reading/Analyzing Content
Use "Text extraction" or "Raw XML access" sections below
Creating New Document
Use "Creating a new Word document" workflow
Editing Existing Document
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Your own document + simple changes Use "Basic OOXML editing" workflow
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Someone else's document Use "Redlining workflow" (recommended default)
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Legal, academic, business, or government docs Use "Redlining workflow" (required)
Reading and analyzing content
Text extraction
If you just need to read the text contents of a document, you should convert the document to markdown using pandoc. Pandoc provides excellent support for preserving document structure and can show tracked changes:
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- Repository
- github.com/aiskillstore/marketplace
- Category
- Office & Documents
- First seen
- Jun 3, 2026
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