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Word documents (docx)

Have Claude write and edit real Word files, with headings, tables and tracked changes.

FreeBy Anthropic
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What is it?

A skill is a folder of instructions that teaches Claude how to do one job properly. This one teaches Claude to produce and edit genuine .docx files: headings, tables of contents, page numbers, images, comments and tracked changes, not a wall of text you paste into Word yourself.

Without it, Claude can describe a document but struggles to build a correctly formatted file. With it, Claude follows the same playbook that powers file creation inside the Claude app, including reading a client's existing document and editing it with tracked changes.

It is source-available rather than open source, which only matters if you want to modify and redistribute it.

Install in Claude Code

In Claude Code run /plugin marketplace add anthropics/skills, then /plugin install document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills. That one plugin installs the Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF skills together.

Try this prompt

Paste into Claude Code
Turn this meeting summary into a one-page client proposal as a Word document, with our logo in the header and a pricing table.

Who it's for

Anyone who sends proposals, reports, letters or contracts as Word files.

Best for

  • Proposals and reports
  • Tracked-change edits on a client file
  • Templated letters and memos
  • Pulling text out of old documents

Why it made the list

It is the official skill behind Claude's own document feature, so the output opens cleanly in Word every time.

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