docx

name: docx description: "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)." license: Proprietary

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.

Workflow Decision Tree

Reading/Analyzing Content

• Text extraction: Use pandoc to convert to markdown

pandoc --track-changes=all path-to-file.docx -o output.md

Creating New Document

Use docx-js (JavaScript/TypeScript library)

Editing Existing Document

• Your own document + simple changes: Basic OOXML editing
• Someone else's document: Use redlining workflow
• Legal/academic/business docs: Use redlining workflow (required)

Key File Structures

• word/document.xml - Main document contents
• word/comments.xml - Comments referenced in document.xml
• word/media/ - Embedded images and media files

Dependencies

• pandoc: For text extraction
• docx: npm package for creating new documents
• LibreOffice: For PDF conversion
• Poppler: For pdftoppm to convert PDF to images