**Recommendations**: CSS styles do not affect resulting MS Word documents as that is not possible with Pandoc. The Word document will use the matching styles based on certain HTML tags (e.g. ``<title>``, ``<h1>``, ``<p>``, or ``<table>``). You can adjust how those look by creating ``reference.docx`` document with desired styles incl. headers/footers. Ideal way is to download MS Word document generated, adjust styles as needed, and store it as the ``reference.docx`` document. Then, it can be simply added to the document template and used for the :ref:`Pandoc step <document-template-step-pandoc>` via ``args``. Please check directly the `relevant part of the Pandoc documentation <https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#option--reference-doc>`_.
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