**claude-office-skills**

Office Document Skills for Claude Code

Professional Office document creation and editing workflows for the command line, powered by Claude Code.

What is this?

This repository packages the same Office document manipulation skills used by [Claude desktop](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12111783-create-and-edit-files-with-claude) for use with [Claude Code](https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/overview) (the CLI version). You get the full power of Claude's document creation capabilities in your terminal, ready to integrate with scripts, CI/CD pipelines, or automated workflows.

Supported Formats

• PowerPoint (PPTX) - Create presentations from scratch or templates, with HTML-to-PPTX conversion
• Word (DOCX) - Edit documents with tracked changes, OOXML manipulation, redlining workflows
• Excel (XLSX) - Build financial models with formulas, formatting, and zero-error validation
• PDF - Fill forms, merge documents, extract data, convert to images

Key Capabilities

PowerPoint

• HTML-to-PPTX conversion - Design slides in HTML/CSS, render to PPTX with full formatting
• Template-based creation - Rearrange slides, replace text with JSON, preserve formatting
• Visual validation - Generate thumbnail grids to catch text cutoff and layout issues
• OOXML editing - Direct XML manipulation for precise control

Word

• Tracked changes (redlining) - Professional document editing with change tracking
• OOXML manipulation - Add comments, modify structure, preserve formatting
• Text extraction - Export content with tracked changes preserved

Excel

• Formula-based models - Working formulas with zero-error requirement
• Professional formatting - Color-coded inputs/formulas, custom number formats
• Data validation - Years as text, zeros formatted as "-", proper cell styling

PDF

• Form filling - Populate fillable PDFs programmatically
• Document merging - Combine multiple PDFs

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