Document Skills
Document ProcessingComprehensive document creation, editing, and analysis suite for professional document formats including Word, PDF, PowerPoint, and Excel files.
Overview
The Document Skills suite provides Claude with the ability to work with professional document formats. Each sub-skill specializes in a specific format with full read/write capabilities.
Included Sub-Skills
DOCX - Word Documents
Create, edit, and analyze Word documents with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, and text extraction using pandoc and OOXML.
- Text extraction with tracked changes visibility
- Raw XML access for comments and metadata
- Redlining workflow for legal/business documents
- docx-js library for programmatic creation
PDF - Portable Documents
Extract text, fill forms, create new PDFs, and manipulate existing documents using pdf-lib and other tools.
- Form field detection and filling
- Text and table extraction
- PDF creation and modification
- Page manipulation (merge, split, rotate)
PPTX - Presentations
Create and modify PowerPoint presentations with support for layouts, themes, speaker notes, and rich media.
- Slide creation with multiple layouts
- Theme and style management
- Speaker notes editing
- HTML to PPTX conversion
XLSX - Spreadsheets
Create and analyze Excel spreadsheets with support for formulas, formatting, charts, and data analysis.
- Formula preservation and recalculation
- Conditional formatting
- Data validation
- Chart creation
When to Use
- Creating professional reports, proposals, or documentation
- Filling out PDF forms programmatically
- Generating presentations from data or outlines
- Analyzing and modifying spreadsheet data
- Converting between document formats
- Working with tracked changes in collaborative documents