Using Word in Agents

After you connect Microsoft SharePoint, the following nodes become available in Profound Agents under Microsoft Suite > Microsoft Word. Use them to read the text of a Word document and to create new documents in OneDrive or SharePoint. Every node runs with the permissions of the account you select under Microsoft Account. A node reaches only the files that the connected account can open.

New to Agents? See Getting started with Agents in the Profound Help Center.

Available nodes

Create Document
Get Document

Create Document

Creates a Word document from plain text, Markdown, or HTML.

Required inputs

Microsoft Account — Select a connected account from the dropdown
Title — The document title without the file extension (the node appends .docx automatically). If a file with the same name already exists in the selected folder, Microsoft 365 gives the new file a numbered name, such as Document 1

Optional inputs

Input	Default	Description
Content format	Plain text	How to read the data in the Initial content field: Plain text, Markdown, or HTML.
Initial content	Empty	The document body, up to 1,000,000 characters. The writer keeps headings, lists, bold, italic, and links, and turns tables, code blocks, and images into plain text.
Destination folder	OneDrive root	The folder that the new document is saved into. Search for a folder by name, paste its link, or browse for it.

Output

A JSON object with the saved document’s reference ID, URL, title, and name. The name and title values are the ones Microsoft 365 saved. If they differ from the Title you entered, a file with that title already existed.

Pass document_ref from the output to the Get Document node as the Document to read the contents of the created document.

Get Document

Reads the text of a Word document.

Required inputs

Microsoft Account — Select a connected account from the dropdown
Document — A .docx or .docm file. Provide it in one of the following ways:
- Search by name: search reaches only the files Microsoft has indexed, so a file created a moment ago may not appear yet.
- Paste the SharePoint or OneDrive link of the document.
- Browse by selecting Browse documents in OneDrive or SharePoint at the bottom of the documents list. This opens the Microsoft file picker, which also finds files search can’t show yet.
- Use a variable from an earlier node’s output, for example the document_ref that Create Document returns.

Optional inputs

Export format — Markdown (default) or Plain text. Markdown keeps headings, bullet and numbered lists, bold, italic, tables, and links. Plain text separates paragraphs with a newline and writes each table row as one line with a tab between cells.

Output

The document body as one string in the selected format. Tracked changes are applied as accepted. The output leaves out headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, comments, and images.

The node reads up to 5,000,000 characters of text from a file of up to 25 MB. A larger document fails with an error instead of returning a partial result.

Troubleshooting

See Troubleshooting Microsoft 365 setup and Agent errors for errors the Word nodes report.

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Using Word in Agents

Available nodes

Create Document

Required inputs

Optional inputs

Output

Get Document

Required inputs

Optional inputs

Output

Troubleshooting

​Available nodes

​Create Document

​Required inputs

​Optional inputs

​Output

​Get Document

​Required inputs

​Optional inputs

​Output

​Troubleshooting

Available nodes

Create Document

Required inputs

Optional inputs

Output

Get Document

Required inputs

Optional inputs

Output

Troubleshooting