DOCX Skill

Create, read, and edit Word documents — reports, memos, letters, letterheads, tables of contents, tracked changes (redlining), and comments. A .docx is a ZIP archive of XML files; this skill covers both the high-level creation path and surgical XML editing.

When to Use

Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx) or Word templates (.dotx). Triggers include: any mention of "Word doc", ".docx", ".dotx", or requests for a "report", "memo", "letter", or similar deliverable as a Word file; extracting or reorganizing content from .docx files; find-and-replace in Word files; inserting images; tracked changes or comments. Do NOT use for PDFs (see the pdf skill), spreadsheets (xlsx), or presentations (powerpoint).

Prerequisites

npm ls docx --depth=0 2>/dev/null | grep -q docx || npm install docx   # creation (docx-js)
pip show pandoc >/dev/null 2>&1 || true; which pandoc || sudo apt install -y pandoc   # reading
which soffice || sudo apt install -y libreoffice     # rendering/verification
which pdftoppm || sudo apt install -y poppler-utils  # PDF → images
pip install defusedxml lxml   # validation scripts

macOS: brew install pandoc libreoffice poppler.