Word template lacks caption styles

[lcrmorin]

Bug description

I had trouble centering image and table captions. (May be it is just me, but I honestly don't get who in its right mind think its better to have both figures / tables and their captions left aligned by default.).

It seems that the default word template provided by quarto lacks image and table caption styles.

1. Would it be possible to update reference word document to have caption styles ?
2. In the documentation, Is there any mapping between word style name and how quarto apply them, more speciffically on Jupyter Notebooks ? This would be helpfull to know which styles to define and how to call a given style.

Steps to reproduce

quarto pandoc -o custom-reference-doc.docx --print-e reference.default-data-fildocx

Then open the word document.

Actual behavior

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Expected behavior

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[mcanouil]

@lcrmorin I suggest you use the search engine to find other GitHub Discussions on this matter; there are quite a few and be sure to read the relevant documentation.

• https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions?discussions_q=center+caption
• https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/ms-word-templates.html
• https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/figures.html#figure-alignment

[lcrmorin]

@mcanouil I went trough most of the discussion / documentation. Most of the discussions offer solutions for producing html (and entering using css). While the documentation generally advise to go trough a word template. It seems some styles are lacking from said template and there is not enough documentation to replace them. So I'd like some precision about word template usage.

Word formatting seems to usually rely on a Word template. Currently the word template seems to be missing a caption style we could customise. (After that there seems to be problems for the caption style to be applied to word documents but this is not the topic). And for defining captions styles in a word template, I would have liked to see some list of what style quarto will apply to what (is the Word style applied to quarto captions 'Caption Style' ? 'caption style' ? 'Image caption' ? etc.).

[mcanouil]

• Both figure and table captions are being converted to actual table structures within Word. This results in the captions being displayed as tables, not text, completely breaking the document layout and structure. #11756