AddFlexTable and zero margin in a word document table

[Lore]

Hi,

I am computing a nice and quite large table in Word with ReporteRs library using these lines:

dataParProp = parProperties(padding= 0, text.align = "center")

resultFT = FlexTable(dataframe,

                         body.text.props = textProperties(font.size=7),

                         body.cell.props = cellProperties( border.style = 'none'),

                         body.par.props = dataParProp, 

                         header.par.props = dataParProp )

doc = addFlexTable( doc , flextable = resultFT, bookmark = "BOOKMARK")

My FlexTable "resultFT" looks very neat and optmised in terms of space with zero padding in each cell.

However, in my word output "doc", my table has a margin of 0.19 cm on the left and on the right side of each cell (instead of 0cm)....

I tried the following options directly in the addFlexTable but I could not see any change in the word output:

doc = addFlexTable( doc , flextable = resultFT, bookmark = "BOOKMARK", par.properties = parProperties(padding.left = 0, padding.right = 0))

Am I missing something?

Or is it not possible to have a zero margin in a FlexTable in a Word document?

Many thanks in advance!

[John Vida]

Hi Lore, 

padding in parproperties wont change margins. It is for paragraph padding between lines. If you want to change margins, load a custom template with margins you like.