Changing word template for knitr in Rmarkdown

Question

I'm using Rstudio to make a markdown document which I want to convert to a word document. I would like to change word template that is automatically generated when you knit to Word. For example, I want the margins to be narrow when I knit to word.

I'm on a Windows 64 bit, with Windows 7.

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '15 at 04:33

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I prepared a video for this task. Please see if it helps. Basically you generate a Word document from an arbitrary R Markdown document, then modify the styles in the Word output document, and use this document as the template for future R Markdown documents.

answered Apr 04 '15 at 04:33

Yihui Xie

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If you create a Word template that includes a header and/or footer, is there a way to dynamically specify the header/footer text when knitting or rendering? For example, is there a way to change the header text in the YAML or within the `word_document` command? Or does the header/footer text have to be "hard-coded" into the Word template document? – eipi10 Sep 03 '17 at 20:35
@brittenb can you elaborate? Could you not simply add `**HERE IS BOLD TEXT** ` within your RMarkdown document? – Patrick Feb 22 '19 at 13:56

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 31 '19 at 18:18

To use a specific template or styled document, you can create a file with the appropriate styling and reference this file in the YAML header of your markdown file. As described in this article: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/articles_docx.html

---
output:
  word_document: 
    reference_docx: "filepath\\ref.docx"
---

Changing word template for knitr in Rmarkdown

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