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R Markdown Cookbook Practical Tips and Tricks for R Markdown

Yihui Xie, Christophe Dervieux, Emily Riederer

Chapter 8 Word

To generate a Word document from R Markdown, you can use the output format word_document. If you want to include cross-references in the document, you may consider the output format bookdown::word_document2, as mentioned in Section 4.7.
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output:
  word_document: default
  bookdown::word_document2: default  # for cross-references
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From our experience, the most frequently asked questions about Word output are:
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  1. How can I apply a custom Word template to the document?
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  2. How can I incorporate changes made in Word in the original R Markdown document?
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  3. How can I style individual document elements?
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We will address these questions in this chapter.
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