Office Suite Skills

Comprehensive toolkit for creating, editing, and manipulating Microsoft Office documents and PDFs.

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Task Skill Path

Word documents (.docx) docx ./docx/SKILL.md

PDF forms & manipulation pdf ./pdf/SKILL.md

PowerPoint presentations pptx ./pptx/SKILL.md

Excel spreadsheets xlsx ./xlsx/SKILL.md

When to Use Each

PDF (./pdf/SKILL.md )

• Extract text or tables from PDFs

• Fill out PDF forms (invoices, applications)

• Merge/split PDF files

• OCR scanned documents

• Add watermarks or passwords

DOCX (./docx/SKILL.md )

• Create professional Word documents

• Work with tracked changes and comments

• Generate reports, letters, memos

• Insert images and tables

• Convert between formats

PPTX (./pptx/SKILL.md )

• Create slide decks from scratch

• Edit existing presentations

• Add charts, images, animations

• Build pitch decks and proposals

XLSX (./xlsx/SKILL.md )

• Create spreadsheets with formulas

• Build financial models and budgets

• Extract data from Excel files

• Recalculate and validate spreadsheets

Shared Utilities

The shared/office/ directory contains Python utilities used across all Office formats:

• pack.py

• Repack XML into Office format

• unpack.py

• Unpack Office file to XML

• validate.py

• Validate Office document structure

• soffice.py

• LibreOffice automation wrapper

Dependencies

Python libraries

pip install pypdf pdfplumber reportlab python-docx openpyxl

Node libraries (for document creation)

npm install -g docx pptxgenjs

System tools (optional but recommended)

brew install poppler qpdf libreoffice

VULKN-Specific Notes

For Mexican SMB invoices (CFDI/Facturapi):

• Use PDF skill to extract data from received invoices

• Use DOCX skill to generate professional quotes and contracts

• Use XLSX skill for financial reporting

Adapted from Anthropic's Claude Cowork skills, Feb 2026