Replacing styles with template styles doc

[noahhaber]

Is it possible to import the styling from one template document and apply it to the working document?

In particular, I have noted that when officer fails to get document properties, it applies an internal default template. Is it possible to do the same, but usiong a different .docx file?

Specifically, I am using a bit of an unusual workflow as a hack to get files "rechunked" so I can find/replace placeholders.

With an existing .docx file, I use pandoc_convert to convert from a .docx to a .docx, which in the process succesfully consolidates in-paragraph chunks. Unfortunately, pandoc_convert loses styles in the process, so I need to reapply the styles from the original (pre-"converted") document posthoc.

test template manuscript.docx

`library(officer)
library(pandoc)

docx_out <- tempfile(fileext = ".docx")
pandoc::pandoc_convert(file = "test template manuscript.docx", from="docx", to = "docx",output=docx_out)
doc <- read_docx(path = docx_out)

print(doc, target="test output.docx")`

[noahhaber]

For what it's worth, using pandoc might be an effective workaround for the chunking problem in general.