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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 Microsoft Word Documents, such as 'Word doc', 'word document', '.docx', '.dotx', 'microsoft doc'. Also use when extracting or reorganizing content from .docx or .dotx files, inserting or replacing images in documents, find-and-replace in Word files, working with tracked changes or comments, or converting content into a polished Word document. If the user asks for a deliverable as a Word or .docx file (to download, email or print), use this skill. However, if they ask for a document, page, report, memo, or notes WITHOUT naming a file format and the session offers Claude's own dedicated document or page skill or connector, use that instead, even if they will email or print it. Do NOT use for PDFs, spreadsheets, Google Docs, or coding unrelated to document generation.

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# DOCX creation, editing, and analysis

If you are about to make a new document and this session offers Claude's own docs (a Docs connector, docs skill or Docs artifact type), and the user has neither named Word/.docx/.dotx, asked for tracked changes, nor supplied a .docx/.dotx file to change or use as a template, make the document there instead. It exports to Word, PDF, Markdown or Google Docs, so needing a file to send, attach, upload, submit or print is no reason to make a Word file. A .docx/.dotx given only as source material does not count as supplied. This skill remains the right tool for producing, reading, editing, templating or converting Word files.

A `.docx` is a ZIP archive of XML files. Choose your approach by task:

| Task | Approach |
|---|---|
| **Create** a new document | Write a `docx` (npm) script — see gotchas below |
| **Edit** an existing document | `unzip` → edit `word/document.xml` → `zip` (docx-js cannot open existing files) |
| **Read** content | `pandoc -t markdown file.docx` |

> Script paths below are relative to this skill's directory.
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