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DOCX creation, editing, and analysis

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Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word doc', 'word…

Skill content

Create, read, edit, and manipulate Word documents (.docx files) with full formatting control.

- Create new .docx files from scratch using JavaScript with support for headings, tables, images, hyperlinks, footnotes, headers/footers, and table of contents

- Edit existing documents by unpacking XML, making targeted changes (including tracked changes and comments), and repacking with validation

- Extract text and analyze content using pandoc or raw XML access; convert legacy .doc files to .docx format

- Handle professional formatting: page sizes (US Letter/A4), margins, multi-column layouts, tab stops, and styled lists without manual unicode characters

DOCX creation, editing, and analysis

Overview

A .docx file is a ZIP archive containing XML files.

Quick Reference

Task
Approach

Read/analyze content
pandoc or unpack for raw XML

Create new document
Use docx-js - see Creating New Documents below

Edit existing document
Unpack → edit XML → repack - see Editing Existing Documents below

Converting .doc to .docx

Legacy .doc files must be converted before editing: