Document DOCX Skill - Quick Reference

This skill covers creation, editing, review, extraction, and release workflows for .docx documents.

Modern best practices (Jul 2026):

Treat .docx as the editable source and PDF as a release artifact.
Prefer templates and built-in styles over manual formatting.
Use comments for review notes; use Word Compare for true redlines.
For LLM/RAG extraction, optimize for structure, trust level, and sanitization rather than visual fidelity.
Treat macro-enabled Office files (.docm, .dotm) as untrusted by default.
Before promising a feature (comments, alt text, tracked changes), check the installed library version — several of these APIs are recent additions and silently absent on older pins. See "Version-Gate Before Promising A Feature" below.

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