Well I can get bookdown to remove the heading numbers as you suggested.
And yes the TOC TOF and TOT fail.
Now the toc: true works as well but puts the toc in front of the title page which doesn't comply to the word template .
I have had success using the officer functions at least with the table of contents, still trying to work out what the correct 'style' is for the TOT and TOF since it tells me there No table of contents entries found.
:::{custom-style="Heading 1 no TOC"}
Table of contents
:::
officer::block_toc(level = 2)
:::{custom-style="Heading 1 no TOC"}
Figures
:::
officer::block_toc(style = "Figure")
:::{custom-style="Heading 1 no TOC"}
Tables
:::
officer::block_toc(style = 'Table')
Also had to change table and figure references to work when references in inline text \@ref(). e.g. tab.id option chunks are ignored.
So somethings work with officedown and some work without officedown Not sure where I go from here.
mapstyles, which I think might be useful and I would like to understand more, are officedown features.
I can try to organise an example Rmd file if you think it useful.