An advanced automation skill for creating, editing, and validating professional Word documents (.docx) via programmatic libraries and direct XML restructuring.
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1. ClawHub CLI
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npx clawhub@latest install wordpro
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What is Word Document (DOCX) Manipulation?
The docx tool, a premium entry in the Openclaw Skills ecosystem, gives your AI agents complete and robust programmatic command over Microsoft Word documents (.docx files). Instead of relying on brittle, high-level text representations, this skill enables programmatic generation using docx-js alongside direct XML-level unpacking, editing, and repackaging. This dual approach ensures your automated document workflows maintain structural and visual integrity, matching professional enterprise styling guidelines.
By incorporating this capability from Openclaw Skills, you can automate complex document workflows, perform deep structural searches, accept or reject tracked changes, and handle conversions between .doc, .docx, and PDF formats. It enforces best design principles—including precise grid layouts, explicit page setup, typographic hierarchies, and proper table formatting—making it indispensable for automated report generation, contract analysis, and content publishing.
Word Document (DOCX) Manipulation Use Cases
- Automated Report and Invoice Generation: Create professionally formatted reports, memos, and letters with automated tables of contents, explicit page sizes, and embedded images.
- Document Analysis and Redaction: Extract text or clean templates using pandoc and direct XML inspection to locate and remove placeholders or sensitive information.
- Tracked Changes and Comments Management: Programmatically insert, accept, or reject track changes and handle collaborative comments using custom author attributes.
- Format Conversion Workflows: Smoothly convert legacy .doc documents to modern .docx files, export finalized drafts to PDF, or split documents into high-resolution images for previews.
- Dynamic XML Patching: Unpack document archives, perform precise XML text replacements, and validate the resulting structure to fix internal styling and layout issues.
How Word Document (DOCX) Manipulation Works
- Trigger and Goal Identification: The AI agent detects keywords such as .docx, report, or tracked changes and loads this option from the library of Openclaw Skills.
- Prerequisite Check and Initialization: The system verifies the availability of npm docx, LibreOffice, pandoc, and pdftoppm to ensure all creation, conversion, and extraction engines are ready.
- New Document Creation (JS Execution): For fresh documents, a custom JavaScript runtime uses docx-js to construct pages, margins, headers, footers, tables, and styles utilizing explicit DXA spacing and layout constraints.
- Existing Document Modification (XML Lifecycle): To edit files, the skill unpacks the .docx ZIP archive, merges adjacent runs, applies target XML edits or tracked changes, and repackages the archive using an automated pack script.
- Validation and Quality Assurance: The updated document is validated against Open XML schemas using structural validation scripts to automatically repair minor errors and ensure compliance.
- Export and Verification Loop: The system optionally generates a PDF or text representation to check for placeholders or orphaned headers, looping through edits until zero defects remain.
Word Document (DOCX) Manipulation Setup
System Prerequisites
Ensure your system has the required global binaries installed. On Windows, verify these are added to your system PATH.
# Install the docx library globally for document generation
npm install -g docx
# Install pandoc for Markdown and text extraction
# On Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install pandoc poppler-utils libreoffice
Directory Navigation
Always run your scripts within the local skill environment context:
cd {this_skill_dir}
Document Conversion Command
Convert legacy .doc files to modern XML format:
python scripts/office/soffice.py --headless --convert-to docx document.doc
Unpacking for XML Edits
Unpack your files before modifying raw XML:
python scripts/office/unpack.py document.docx unpacked/
Validating Output
Run structural verification checks after packing files:
python scripts/office/validate.py document.docx
Word Document (DOCX) Manipulation Data Schema & Taxonomy
This skill organizes its operations through raw XML schemas, temporary unpacked directory structures, and a dedicated scripts repository. Below is the file and metadata schema utilized when using this tool from Openclaw Skills:
Core Schema Units (DXA)
Most layout specifications inside Word documents use DXA (twips), where 1440 DXA = 1 inch.
| Attribute / Element | Target Value (US Letter) | Target Value (A4) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Page Width | 12,240 DXA | 11,906 DXA | Width of the document canvas |
| Page Height | 15,840 DXA | 16,838 DXA | Height of the document canvas |
| Default Margins | 1,440 DXA | 1,440 DXA | Explicit 1-inch margins around the text area |
| Body Width | 9,360 DXA | 9,026 DXA | Available width for full-width tables or layouts |
File Structure Taxonomy
When unpacking or modifying a .docx package, the following files and paths are critical:
word/document.xml: Main XML structure containing the actual text paragraphs (<w:p>), runs (<w:r>), and tables (<w:tbl>).word/comments.xml: Holds document collaboration commentary and replies.word/_rels/document.xml.rels: Tracks image relationships and embedded hypermedia pointers.word/media/: Directory where all embedded images, logos, and illustrations are stored.[Content_Types].xml: Maps media extensions (e.g., png, jpeg) to their official XML content-type definitions.
Word Document (DOCX) Manipulation Advanced Features
- Precise Table Grid Alignment: Enforces dual-width table and cell configurations using DXA, eliminating table sizing breakdowns inside third-party editors like Google Docs.
- Native Tracked Changes: Implements insertion (
<w:ins>) and deletion (<w:del>) markup elements seamlessly, complete with customizable authoring metadata and date attributes. - Multi-Level Collaboration: Leverage helper tools to inject threaded document comments and nested reply chains programmatically.
- Table of Contents Automation: Automatically builds structural TOC indexes using outline levels, removing the need for manual navigation structures.
- Intelligent Post-Processing QA: Includes a validation loop using check scripts to catch missing alt-texts, bad heading levels, and orphaned placeholders before delivery.
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