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Comprehensive document creation, editing, and analysis with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, and text extraction. Use when working with professional documents (.docx files) for creating new documents, modifying or editing content, working with tracked changes, adding comments, or any other document tasks. Do NOT use for plain-text Markdown drafting, PDF work (use pdf-extract or pdf-processing-pro), or rich rendered email/WhatsApp drafts (use the message plugin).

DOCX creation, editing, and analysis

Overview

A user may ask you to create, edit, or analyse the contents of a .docx file. A .docx file is essentially a ZIP archive containing XML files and other resources that you can read or edit. You have different tools and workflows available for different tasks.

Workflow Decision Tree

Reading/Analysing Content

Use "Text extraction" or "Raw XML access" sections below

Creating New Document

Use "Creating a new Word document" workflow

Editing Existing Document

• Your own document + simple changes Use "Basic OOXML editing" workflow

• Someone else's document Use "Redlining workflow" (recommended default)

• Legal, academic, business, or government docs Use "Redlining workflow" (required)

Reading and analysing content

Text extraction

If you just need to read the text contents of a document, you should convert the document to markdown using pandoc. Pandoc provides excellent support for preserving document structure and can show tracked changes:

# Convert document to markdown with tracked changes
pandoc --track-changes=all path-to-file.docx -o output.md
# Options: --track-changes=accept/reject/all