Edit Word documents with AI — open .docx, refine in markdown, save back

Multilo now opens Microsoft Word (.docx) files directly. The original document loads into our AI-native markdown editor, where every agent — Claim Check, citation cleanup, bibliography, language polish, structure repair — works the same way it does on a fresh draft. When you're done, save back to .docx with formatting intact.

## What it ships

- **Open any .docx as a first-class document** — coursework, thesis chapters, supervisor returns, journal templates, conference submissions. Multilo parses the structure (headings, lists, quotes, tables, footnotes, in-text citations) and renders it as clean markdown you can actually reason about.
- **Every agent works on your real document** — Claim Check verifies your citations, the bibliography agent reformats references to APA/IEEE/Harvard/MLA/Chicago, the language polish agent rewrites in your voice, the structure agent rebalances sections. They all read and edit the same markdown view.
- **Save back to Word, formatting preserved** — Ctrl/Cmd-S exports to .docx. Your supervisor never sees markdown — they see a Word document with your edits applied, headings still numbered, footnotes still anchored, citations still threaded.
- **No conversion round-trip** — you don't import, then export, then re-import. The document stays open as one file the entire session.

## How it works

1. **Open** — drag a .docx onto the Explorer pane or use File → Open. Multilo parses the OOXML structure and renders it into the markdown editor.
2. **Edit with AI** — pick any agent from the Library. It reads the open file as context, runs against the markdown, and shows its proposed edits inline. Accept or steer as you would on a fresh draft.
3. **Save** — Ctrl/Cmd-S writes the changes back to the original .docx. Headings, footnotes, tables, citations, and inline formatting are preserved.

## Why it matters

Word documents are the de facto format in academic writing, but every other AI tool treats .docx as opaque — they ask you to copy paragraphs into a chat window, then paste the AI's response back manually. That breaks citations, breaks formatting, and breaks the supervisor's track-changes workflow. Multilo's markdown mode is the first IDE that opens .docx as a first-class document, lets project-aware agents read and edit the whole file, and writes back without breaking the structure your reviewers expect.

## Use it for

- Polishing a finished thesis chapter your supervisor returned with comments
- Reformatting a conference paper's citations to a different style
- Running Claim Check across an entire draft to verify every reference
- Rewriting a methodology section in plainer language without losing the structure
- Translating a paper into another language and saving back as a Word doc

## Get started

Open Multilo, drag a .docx into the Explorer pane, and pick any agent from the Library.