docx
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: (1) Creating new documents, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working with tracked changes, (4) Adding comments, or any other document tasks
npx skills add ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills --skill docx --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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 - **Your own document + simple changes** Use "Basic OOXML editing" workflow - **Someone else's document** Use **"Redlining workflow"** (recommended default) - **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: ```bash # Convert document to markdown with tracked changes pandoc --track-changes=all path-to-file.docx -o output.md # Options: --track-changes=accept/reject/all
- Overview
- Workflow Decision Tree
- Reading/Analyzing Content
- Creating New Document
- Editing Existing Document
- Reading and analyzing content
- Text extraction
- Raw XML access
- Creating a new Word document
- Workflow
- Editing an existing Word document
- Redlining workflow for document review
- Tracked changes workflow
- Converting Documents to Images
Convert document to markdown with tracked changes pandoc --track-changes=all path-to-file.docx -o output.md pandoc --track-changes=all path-to-file.docx -o current.md python ooxml/scripts/pack.py unpacked reviewed-document.docx pandoc --track-changes=all reviewed-document.docx -o verification.md grep "original phrase" verification.md # Should NOT find it grep "replacement phrase" verification.md # Should find it soffice --headless --convert-to pdf document.docx pdftoppm -jpeg -r 150 document.pdf page pdftoppm -jpeg -r 150 -f 2 -l 5 document.pdf page # Converts only pages 2-5
What does the docx skill do?
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: (1) Creating new documents, (2) Modifying or editing content, (3) Working with tracked changes, (4) Adding comments, or any other document tasks
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills --skill docx --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills, a repository with 71,763 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.