Can I justify my text when I create a docx file with Quarto?

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Hi, guys!

I have been using quarto in RStudio for few days.

I need to generate an .docx with justified text and Times New Roman font (or similar in Linux).

To justify in .rmd files I used to put <div style="text-align: justify"> at the begin of the file and close with </div>.

But this is not working with quarto. How can I fix it?

Also, how can I change my main font in quarto?

My code:

---
title: "My simple title"
description: | 
  Text proof
author: "My name and ID"
format: 
  docx:
    geometry: 
      - top=30mm
      - left=30mm
editor: visual
---

<div style="text-align: justify"> 

**UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO - USP**

-   Program

-   Date: 10/05/2022

-   Subject: Calc

-   Professor: Marcelo 

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What this working with rmarkdown::word_document() format ? I can't reproduce, and I am not sure it was ever possible to style docx this way. Can you share a working example in Rmd so I can have a look ?

Usually for docx document, you need to provide a reference docx to change the default style used, or provided use custom style you could use with fenced divs syntax to apply on a paragraph.

See about custom styles syntax https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#output and how to create docx template in https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/ms-word-templates.html

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Thanks a lot!

I tried to use a template yesterday and did not work, but tried again now and worked fine!

I dont know what I did wrong lol

Thanks a lot!

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About my .rmd, I used it in a simple HTML output with prettydoc package.

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Ok. So that is why the syntax you used worked - because it is HTML output. The syntax with div will have not effect for Word output. Templates need to be used.

Glad it works now

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