Docx

If you need Claude to work with Word documents beyond basic text extraction, this handles the full complexity of the DOCX format. It provides three different workflows depending on what you're doing: creating new documents with docx-js, editing your own files with a Python OOXML library, or making tracked changes to someone else's document using a "redlining workflow" that preserves change history. The tracked changes approach is thoughtful, it converts to markdown first for planning, then implements changes in batches while only marking text that actually changed. The documentation is thorough about when to use each approach, legal and business documents require the redlining workflow, your own simple edits can use direct XML manipulation.