Anthropic

Docx — Documentation skill for Claude Code

Documentation official Intermediate

Create, edit, and analyze Word documents with tracked changes, comments, and formatting.

How to install Docx

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/docx/

Terminal

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/skills /tmp/skills \
  && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills \
  && cp -r /tmp/skills/skills/docx ~/.claude/skills/docx

Clones the whole repository, because a skill folder can carry scripts and resources beside its SKILL.md.

What Docx does

Create, read, edit, or manipulate Word documents (.docx files). Supports tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, text extraction, find-and-replace, image insertion, and conversion from legacy .doc format.

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When Claude uses Docx

Trigger

When user mentions Word doc, .docx, or requests professional documents with formatting

Tools it reaches for:

BashWriteRead

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