Create And Repair Word Documents With Layout Safe Docx Workflows

---
name: "Create and repair Word documents with layout-safe DOCX workflows"
slug: "create-and-repair-word-documents-with-layout-safe-docx-workflows"
description: "Use the Anthropic docx skill when an agent needs to produce or repair a real .docx deliverable with headings, tables, numbering, tracked changes, or layout constraints. It frames the work as a document-building workflow with validation and packaging rules, not as a generic document library listing."
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/docx"
author: "Anthropic"
publisher_type: "official_repository"
category: "Templates & Workflows"
framework: "Claude Agents"
---

# Create and repair Word documents with layout-safe DOCX workflows

Use the Anthropic docx skill when an agent needs to produce or repair a real .docx deliverable with headings, tables, numbering, tracked changes, or layout constraints. It frames the work as a document-building workflow with validation and packaging rules, not as a generic document library listing.

## Prerequisites

docx generation library, pandoc, LibreOffice

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- The frontmatter requires only two fields:

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- Select document-skills or example-skills
- /plugin install example-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
- These example skills are all already available to paid plans in Claude.ai.

- Source: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/docx
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/skills/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/docx

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/create-and-repair-word-documents-with-layout-safe-docx-workflows/)