rticles output in *.docx format

[gtalckmin]

Hello,

Is there a way to output a rticles Journal formatted file? I am happy with the PDF but my supervisors/reviewers are requesting *docx format.

I tried this, but it does not work.

output:
bookdown::word_document2:
base_format: rticles::springer_article
number_sections: no

[gtalckmin]

13.4 LaTeX content
As the only output format of the rticles formats is PDF
https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/rticles-latex.html

[VEZY]

I know this issue is closed, but you can still output docx documents (if you didn't put LaTeX in the doc though) by modifying the output such as:

output: 
  rticles::springer_article: default
  word_document: default

NB: you can do it for any format, e.g. HTML.
You can also use Pandoc with a custom template for your word.

Another solution is to open your PDF using word, and to save the document as docx. This works perfectly.

[gtalckmin]

Salut @VEZY,
Thanks for your reply.
I am aware I could output to a doc file by using a standard template. However, I am unaware that it is possible using the rticles "template". It would be great though.

Until now, my best solution, as you mentioned, was exporting from PDF to docx. However, whenever I tried to export a PDF as a word document, most times, the Fonts were not correct.

The best option, in my experience, is to export the document without any Figures. Otherwise, the whole page layout is compromised. fonts are mixed etc.
Thanks for your input. Cheers

[alapo]

This same comment was brought up on the officedown GitHub. I am attempting to get this working using that package. You can view my post here

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