DOCX Style Auditor

When to invoke

• You receive Word documents from multiple authors and need consistent formatting.
• You want a checklist of style issues before publishing or exporting to PDF.

Inputs needed

• --input: Path to a .docx file.
• Optional: --out: Path to write a JSON report.

Workflow

1. Read word/document.xml from the .docx zip.
2. Identify paragraph styles (w:pStyle) and detect:
   • direct formatting overrides (e.g., explicit font size on headings)
   • inconsistent heading level jumps (e.g., Heading 1 -> Heading 3)
   • excessive empty paragraphs
3. Produce counts and examples with paragraph text snippets.

Output format

JSON with:

• summary: counts per issue type
• issues: list of {issue_type, severity, location, excerpt}

Guardrails

• Read-only: never modify the input document.
• Best-effort parsing; if namespaces/parts are missing, fail with a clear error.
• Vendor-neutral: focus on OpenXML structure, not a specific Word version.

Reference code

Use docx_style_auditor.py.