Claude Official Skill: DOCX — Word Document Creation

What it is

The DOCX skill is an official Claude Code skill that adds Word document capabilities. It enables Claude Code to create new .docx files, read existing ones, and edit documents with formatting, tables, images, headers, footers, and styles. The skill handles the python-docx library interaction so you get professionally formatted Word documents from natural language instructions.

This skill is designed for developers, technical writers, and business users who need to generate or modify Word documents as part of AI-assisted workflows.

How it saves time or tokens

Creating Word documents programmatically with python-docx requires understanding the library's API for styles, paragraphs, tables, and images. The DOCX skill encapsulates this knowledge so Claude Code can generate properly formatted documents from simple instructions. A report that would take an hour to format manually can be generated in seconds. The skill also handles reading existing documents, extracting structured data from tables, and making targeted edits.

How to use

1. Install the skill in Claude Code:

claude skill install anthropics/skills/docx

Or manually copy the SKILL.md content to .claude/skills/docx/SKILL.md in your project.

1. Ask Claude Code to create a document:

Create a project status report as a Word document with:
- Title: Q1 2026 Status Report
- A summary paragraph
- A table of milestones with columns: Milestone, Status, Date
- Save as status-report.docx

1. Claude Code uses the skill to generate the document with proper formatting and styles.

Example

The skill generates code like this behind the scenes:

from docx import Document
from docx.shared import Inches, Pt
from docx.enum.text import WD_ALIGN_PARAGRAPH

doc = Document()
doc.add_heading('Q1 2026 Status Report', level=0)

doc.add_paragraph('This report summarizes project progress for Q1 2026.')

table = doc.add_table(rows=1, cols=3)
table.style = 'Table Grid'
hdr_cells = table.rows[0].cells
hdr_cells[0].text = 'Milestone'
hdr_cells[1].text = 'Status'
hdr_cells[2].text = 'Date'

for milestone, status, date in milestones:
    row = table.add_row().cells
    row[0].text = milestone
    row[1].text = status
    row[2].text = date

doc.save('status-report.docx')

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Common pitfalls

• Not having python-docx installed in your Python environment. The skill generates Python code that requires the python-docx package. Install it with pip install python-docx before using the skill.
• Expecting pixel-perfect layout. Word documents have inherent layout variability across viewers. Focus on structure and content rather than precise positioning.
• Forgetting that reading a .docx file extracts text content but may lose complex formatting. If you need to preserve exact formatting when editing, make targeted changes rather than regenerating the entire document.