# Word MCP Live MCP Server

Live Microsoft Word editing via MCP — tracked changes, undo, comments, 40+ tools

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `word-mcp-live` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**13 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 10.

### Most discussed

### macOS: tracked changes ignore MCP_AUTHOR — revisions attributed to Word user name

**Environment:** macOS (Apple Silicon), Word for Mac 16.111.1, word-mcp-live via uvx (latest), MCP_AUTHOR set in server env.

**What happens:** Tracked edits made through the live tools on macOS (word_live_replace_text, word_live_format_text, etc. with track_changes=true) create revisions attributed to Word's configured user name, not the MCP_AUTHOR value.

**Expected:** Revisions authored as MCP_AUTHOR, matching Windows behavior.

**Root cause:** The COM path in `tools/live_tools.py` wraps trac

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ykarapazar/word-mcp-live/issues/21) · 2026-08-03 · open · external user · 1 comment

### [Bug] word_live_apply_list — level_map ignored, multilevel lists missing per-level indentation

**Tool name:** `word_live_apply_list`

## Describe the bug

Two issues hit while building a 3-level numbered list (arabic → lowercase_letter → lowercase_roman):

1. **`level_map` parameter is silently ignored.** A single multilevel call with `level_map` returns `success: true` but all paragraphs render flat at level 1 — `level_map` has no effect.
2. **Successive `apply_list` calls produce correct markers but no visual indentation.** The workaround for bug 1 (multiple calls with `continue_previou

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ykarapazar/word-mcp-live/issues/13) · 2026-05-08 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Word MCP MacOS Not Live Editing

- I am using [Kiro CLI](https://kiro.dev/) with the following config:

```
% cat ~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers" : {
    "word" : {
      "command" : "uvx",
      "args" : [ "--from", "word-mcp-live", "word_mcp_server" ],
      "env" : {
        "MCP_AUTHOR" : "Stan Brinkerhoff",
        "MCP_AUTHOR_INITIALS" : "SB"
      }
    },
```

- This starts up `word-mc-live` 1.6.2:

```
% uvx --from word-mcp-live -v word_mcp_server
DEBUG uv 0.9.13 (Homebrew 2025-11-26)
....
DEBUG Found fresh 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ykarapazar/word-mcp-live/issues/12) · 2026-05-05 · open · external user · 2 comments

### word_screen_capture raises NameError: _MAC_AVAILABLE is not defined

## Summary

`word_screen_capture` fails on every call with `NameError: name '_MAC_AVAILABLE' is not defined`. The tool is unusable.

## Environment

- Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
- word-mcp-live @ upstream/main (6167f52)
- Client: Claude Code 2.1.51

## Steps to reproduce

1. Open any Word document.
2. Call `word_screen_capture` (via any MCP client or directly).

## Actual behavior

```
Error calling tool 'word_screen_capture': name '_MAC_AVAILABLE' is not defined
```

## Expected behavior

Return

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ykarapazar/word-mcp-live/issues/8) · 2026-04-17 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Bug: word_live_replace_text infinite loop when document has TrackRevisions enabled

## Bug Description

`word_live_replace_text` with `replace_all=True` causes an **infinite loop** that fills the document with endless duplicated replacement text when the document already has `TrackRevisions` enabled at the document level.

## Root Cause

The function correctly guards against `replace_all=True` + `track_changes=True` (the tool's own parameter) at line 802:

```python
if replace_all and track_changes:
    return json.dumps({"error": "replace_all=True with track_changes=True cause

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ykarapazar/word-mcp-live/issues/7) · 2026-04-07 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Most recent

### macOS: tracked changes ignore MCP_AUTHOR — fix tested, plus an Office

sign-in gotcha that likely affects Windows too

**Environment:** macOS (Apple Silicon), Word for Mac 16.111.1, word-mcp-live
@ c6c7617 via uvx, MCP_AUTHOR set in server env.

**Problem:** Tracked edits via the live tools on macOS attribute revisions to
Word's user, not MCP_AUTHOR. The COM path wraps tracked edits in an author
swap (app.UserName) in `tools/live_tools.py`; the JXA path in
`core/word_mac.py` sets trackRevisions but never swaps the author.

**Fix — tested and working in production:*

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ykarapazar/word-mcp-live/issues/23) · 2026-08-03 · open · external user · 0 comments

### macOS: word_live_insert_paragraphs not implemented

**Environment:** same as #<issue 1 number>.

Calling word_live_insert_paragraphs on macOS returns
`{"error": "word_live_insert_paragraphs is not yet implemented on macOS"}`.

Workaround that works well meanwhile: word_live_replace_text with `^p` in the
replacement text — Word's replace engine interprets it as a paragraph mark on
both platforms, including with track_changes=true. Noting it here in case
that's useful to others until the port lands; mac_insert_text already exists,
so presumably it'

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ykarapazar/word-mcp-live/issues/22) · 2026-08-03 · open · external user · 0 comments

### search_and_replace fails when search text spans across multiple runs

## Problem

The search_and_replace tool fails to find and replace text that contains special characters like brackets [], Chinese punctuation, or any text that spans across multiple Word document runs.

## Root Cause

After analyzing the source code in word_document_server/utils/document_utils.py, I found that find_and_replace_text checks each run individually:

`python
for run in para.runs:
    if old_text in run.text:  # Problem here
        run.text = run.text.replace(old_text, new_text)
`

W

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ykarapazar/word-mcp-live/issues/17) · 2026-06-19 · open · external user · 0 comments

### track_replace hangs (infinite loop, 100% CPU) when new_text contains old_text as a substring

## Summary

`track_replace` (`track_replace_in_doc` in `word_document_server/core/tracked_changes.py`) enters an infinite loop and pins a CPU core at ~100% whenever `new_text` contains `old_text` as a contiguous substring. The process must be killed manually.

## Version

word-mcp-live 1.6.20 (latest on PyPI as of 2026-06-17). Confirmed present on `main`.

## Root cause

Each paragraph is re-scanned in a `while True` loop until `old_text` is no longer found:

```python
for p in _get_paragraphs(r

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ykarapazar/word-mcp-live/issues/16) · 2026-06-17 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Startup Banner should say what project it is.

When I start the `word-mcp-live`, I get a generic `FastMCP` banner but no idea what version of `word-mcp-live` I am running:

```
% uvx --from word-mcp-live word_mcp_server
Loading configuration from .env file...
Transport: stdio
Starting Word Document MCP Server with stdio transport...
Server running on stdio transport

                             ╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
                             │                                    

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ykarapazar/word-mcp-live/issues/11) · 2026-05-05 · open · external user · 0 comments

[See all 13 reports Pod holds for Word MCP Live](/mcp/word-mcp-live/issues).

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