https://community.rstudio.com/t/table-captions-not-displaying-when-rendering-quarto-to-word/163331?u=poser92

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#1

Hi, I'm having the same issue which was brought up in the question linked in the title.
I need to render some table in a word document but my table caption disappears once the document is rendered
here's my code

title: "Table example"
format:
docx
editor: visual

#| echo: false
#| label: table_1

library(tidyverse)
library(gtsummary)
library(gt)

mtcars %>% 
  tbl_summary() %>% 
  as_gt() %>%
  tab_caption(caption = md("Table caption"))

any suggestions?
@cderv @rich_i

thanks in advance

#2

Try

#| echo: false
#| label: table_1
mtcars %>% 
  tbl_summary() %>% 
  as_gt() %>%
 tab_header(title = "Table caption")

This works in PDF but seems to add an extra "X" in Word.

#3

It seems to work as word document using tab_header(title = "Table caption") (although I don't like the formatting) but now every table of the document has "table 1" before "table caption" and I can't figure out where this "table1" comes from.
Here's my code

#| echo: false
#| label: table
#| tbl-cap: table

library(tidyverse)
library(gtsummary)
library(gt)

mtcars %>% 
  tbl_summary() %>% 
  as_gt() %>%
 tab_header(title = md("**Table caption**"))

and here's the output

Screenshot 2023-10-22 at 13.51.45
Screenshot 2023-10-22 at 13.51.452036×1014 136 KB

#4

Interesting. I an a Linux user and do not have Word but LibreOffice. Here is what I am getting

caption_gt
caption_gt895×303 22.5 KB

Do you have to use {gt} ? Another package, maybe {flextable} might be appropriate.

I have to leave now but I'll try to look at this later today.

#5

I have issues with flextable either. I'm definitely missing something about table rendering in quarto documents!
In any case, thanks for your suggestions!

#6

Maybe just remove the

#| label: table
#| tbl-cap: table

---
title: ""
format: docx
---

```{r load}
#| echo: false
#| include: false

library(tidyverse)
library(gtsummary)
library(gt)

It was a dark and stormy night.

#| echo: false
mtcars %>% 
  tbl_summary() %>% 
  as_gt() %>%
 tab_header(title = "Table caption")
#7

It doesn't work anyway :sleepy:

#8

Why not?
Do you get any error messages? If so can you post them here?
thanks

#9

These are my codes

title: ""
format: docx

#| echo: false
#| include: false

library(tidyverse)
library(gtsummary)
library(gt)

#| echo: false
mtcars %>% 
  tbl_summary() %>% 
  as_gt() %>%
 tab_header(title = "Table caption")

this is the output

Screenshot 2023-10-24 at 13.27.54

#10

Blast it, I ran it in .pdf not .docx and it looked okay. I'm at a loss here.

If it is possible in Word, I'd just create a new style and manually edit the table caption in Word . My results doing this in LibreOffice.

LO2
LO2849×486 32.2 KB

You might want to e-mail the package author/maintainer mentioning this problem. It could be a package problem or a Pandoc issue.

#11

Most of the people I work with want to revise docx document so I would like to find my setup with this format. So far it is kind of frustrating.

#12

Yes I see the problem. I do think the best idea is an email to the author/maintainer. I 'think' that it likely is a pandoc problem since I am getting a clean pdf version. They may be able to confirm this and suggest what to do.

#13

I believe you are just encountering some issues with cross referencing, and Docx document.
Follow the work happening in Quarto for 1.4 and it will be solved.

you could try pre-release already: Quarto - Pre-release Builds

There are already several issues about gt and flextable for docx output with Quarto so you should find some reading if you want at GitHub - quarto-dev/quarto-cli: Open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.

Thanks for your patience while we are improving all this.

#14

Something must have been fixed because, using same codes as before, I get properly numbered table when I rented docx using quarto

#15

Interesting I'm still getting

Table 1: Table captionX

in LibreOffice in Ubuntu. Come to think of it, I use LO so seldomly I probably need to update it.

#16

Is this using the latest pre-release 1.4 ?