Here are a couple of things that I have found useful for when you need the final results in MS Word and you want nice formatting.
Use a quarto or Rmarkdown document and have knitr/pandoc create the word document instead of copy/paste. The pander package does some nice formatting for many of the statistical routines that pandoc converts into tables. If you need to copy and paste, first copy and paste to MS Excel (and for tables, you can use write.table with file="clipboard" and sep="\t", then just paste in Excel). Then maybe make some adjustments in Excel, then copy from Excel to Word, this will keep things as a table in word, so changing the font will not mess with the alignment. The broom package takes output from lm models and puts them into data frames (tibbles) that can be exported to Excel>Word instead of relying on fixed width fonts and spaces for formatting. On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM tgs77m--- via R-help <[email protected]> wrote: > > The root cause is that RStudio’s output console is hardwired to use > monospaced fonts like Consolas, Courier, or Monaco, which preserve column > alignment. Times New Roman (TTR), being proportional, breaks that alignment > when pasted into Word unless you manually reformat. > > > > > > From: CALUM POLWART <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2025 5:02 AM > To: Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (NP) <[email protected]> > Cc: Thomas Subia <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [R] Best practice for copying statistical output from RStudio to > Word using Times New Roman > > > > As Wolfgang says. > > > > Ctrl-Shift-V and plain text. > > > > That said... I bet some of it looks awful as it's probably spaced for a fixed > width font. > > > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2025, 10:28 Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (NP) via R-help, > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear Thomas, > > Just paste without formatting. Then the pasted text will be in the active > font of the Word document. > > Best, > Wolfgang > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: R-help <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of tgs77m--- via R-help > > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2025 07:51 > > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Subject: [R] Best practice for copying statistical output from RStudio to > > Word > > using Times New Roman > > > > Colleagues > > > > I am writing an article using Microsoft Word for a journal that requires > > Times New Roman for all text (including tables and statistical outputs). > > However, copying console output from RStudio (e.g., summary(lm())) into Word > > retains the RStudio monospace font, and Word does not automatically convert > > it to Times New Roman. Manually restyling each pasted block is > > time-consuming and error-prone. > > > > s there a recommended workflow for preserving proper alignment while > > achieving Times New Roman text formatting when transferring statistical > > results from RStudio into Word? > > > > System: > > Windows 11 > > R 4.5.1 > > RStudio 2024.12.0+ > > > > Thanks for any guidance or best practices. > > > > Best regards, > > Thomas Subia > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> mailing list -- To > UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. [email protected] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
