Document Skills - Office Document Processing

Comprehensive toolkit for creating, editing, and analyzing Microsoft Office and PDF documents with professional formatting, tracked changes, and content manipulation.

Key Benefits

• Multi-format support: .docx, .pdf, .pptx, .xlsx
• Professional document creation and editing
• Tracked changes and redlining workflows
• Text extraction and content analysis
• Raw XML/OOXML access for advanced manipulation
• Formatting preservation and complex layouts
• Comment management and collaboration features

Core Capabilities

• Word (.docx): Create with docx-js library, edit with Document library (Python OOXML), tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, text extraction, redlining workflows
• PDF: Text extraction with pandoc, structure preservation, conversion to/from other formats
• PowerPoint (.pptx): Presentation creation and editing, slide manipulation, content extraction
• Excel (.xlsx): Spreadsheet processing, data extraction, formula handling

When to Use

• Creating professional Word documents from scratch
• Editing existing Office documents with tracked changes
• Extracting text and content from documents
• Analyzing document structure and metadata
• Managing comments and collaboration features
• Converting between document formats
• Processing legal, academic, business, or government documents
• Implementing redlining workflows for document review

Workflow Decision Tree

Reading/Analyzing Content:

• Text extraction: Use pandoc conversion to markdown
• Structure/comments/formatting: Raw XML access via OOXML unpacking

Creating New Document:

• Use docx-js (JavaScript/TypeScript) for Word document creation

Editing Existing Document:

• Own document + simple changes: Basic OOXML editing
• Others' documents/professional contexts: Redlining workflow (recommended/required)

Proprietary license - see LICENSE.txt in repository for complete terms.

Source: https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-writer/tree/main/skills/document-skills License: Proprietary