# docx

> Claude/Codex skill by [@anthropics](https://omgskills.com/library/anthropics/index.md) · 183k stars · 218k installs · Updated 2026-10-09

Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files) or Word templates (.dotx files). Triggers include: any mention of 'Word doc', 'word document', '.docx', '.dotx', or requests to produce professional documents with formatting like tables of contents, headings, page numbers, or letterheads. Also use when extracting or reorganizing content from .docx or .dotx files, inserting or replacing images in documents, performing 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 'report', 'memo', 'letter', 'template', or similar deliverable as a Word or .docx file, use this skill. Do NOT use for PDFs, spreadsheets, Google Docs, or general coding tasks unrelated to document generation.

Tags: agent-skills

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/anthropics/skills /tmp/skills && ln -s /tmp/skills/skills/docx ~/.claude/skills/docx
```

## From README

DOCX creation, editing, and analysis 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. Creating with docx-js — gotchas docx is preinstalled — do not run npm first; write the script and require('docx') directly. Only if that require fails: npm docx. The model knows the API; these are the footguns: Page size defaults to A4. For US Letter set page: { size: { width: 12240, height: 15840 } } (DXA; 1440 = 1″). Landscape: pass portrait dimensions and orientation: PageOrientation.LANDSCAPE — docx-js swaps width/height internally.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/anthropics/skills/docx/
- GitHub: https://github.com/anthropics/skills
- Author: [@anthropics](https://omgskills.com/library/anthropics/index.md)

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