Changing Word document style in RMarkdown

Question

I am attempting to manually change the style within an R-markdown document. In the example below I have created a reference_docx with the style named Highlight

--- 
title: "My Title"
output:
  bookdown::word_document2:
    fig_caption: yes
    reference_docx: my_reference.docx
link-citations: no
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
---

# Here is Header 1

I want this text to be in red using the **Highlight** style from the reference document

I have tried 

<div style="Highlight">
This text is still not red
</div>

Does anyone have any ideas? I looked into the officer package but as far as I know this will only work after the document is rendered.

it should be `custom-style`, see http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#custom-styles — mb21, Feb 26 '19 at 14:43

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 22 '22 at 18:42

In case anyone else finds this, here is the full answer. See the 'div' style below.

# Here is Header 1

I want this text to be in red using the **Highlight** style from the reference document

<div custom-style="Highlight">
This text should be red now.
</div>

Changing Word document style in RMarkdown

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