urls missing from hyperlinks in quarto for word

[RichardJActon]

example.qmd

---
title: "example"
number-sections: true
format:
  docx:
    toc: false
---

```{r}
suppressPackageStartupMessages({
	library(dplyr)
	library(flextable)
	library(officer)
	library(officedown)
})
```
example

```{r}
tibble(
	x = c("A","A","B","B"), y = "text", y_url = "https://example.com"
) %>%
	flextable(col_keys = c("x", "y")) %>% 
	compose(
		j = "y",
		value = as_paragraph(hyperlink_text(x = y, url = y_url))
	) %>%
	merge_v(j = "x") %>% 
	border_inner() %>%
	autofit()
```

quarto render example.qmd

When looking at the output the hyperlinks appear to have been generated but their urls have empty values. When opening the word document you get the hold crtl and click tooltip when hovering over the link but nothing happens when it is clicked. When you edit the hyperlink you can see that the text field is populated but link field is empty.

This appears to be similar to #168, so I tried loading {officedown} and {officer} to see if this fixed the problem as it did in the previous issue - this had no effect.

sessionInfo()

R version 4.5.2 (2025-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Running under: NixOS 25.11 (Xantusia)

Matrix products: default
BLAS/LAPACK: /nix/store/yz9ifl0wifs6lzjcal1s4b00dvdaa3j4-blas-3/lib/libblas.so.3;  LAPACK version 3.12.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

time zone: Europe/London
tzcode source: system (glibc)

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] officedown_0.4.1 officer_0.7.3    flextable_0.9.10 dplyr_1.1.4     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] jsonlite_2.0.0          compiler_4.5.2          zip_2.3.3              
 [4] tidyselect_1.2.1        Rcpp_1.1.1              xml2_1.5.2             
 [7] tidyr_1.3.2             fontquiver_0.2.1        systemfonts_1.3.1      
[10] textshaping_1.0.4       uuid_1.2-2              yaml_2.3.12            
[13] fastmap_1.2.0           R6_2.6.1                gdtools_0.4.4          
[16] generics_0.1.4          knitr_1.51              tibble_3.3.1           
[19] openssl_2.3.4           pillar_1.11.1           rvg_0.4.0              
[22] rlang_1.1.7             cachem_1.1.0            xfun_0.56              
[25] memoise_2.0.1           cli_3.6.5               magrittr_2.0.4         
[28] digest_0.6.39           grid_4.5.2              askpass_1.2.1          
[31] lifecycle_1.0.5         vctrs_0.7.1             evaluate_1.0.5         
[34] glue_1.8.0              data.table_1.18.2.1     fontLiberation_0.1.0   
[37] ragg_1.5.0              fontBitstreamVera_0.1.1 rmarkdown_2.30         
[40] purrr_1.2.1             tools_4.5.2             pkgconfig_2.0.3        
[43] htmltools_0.5.9        

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[davidgohel]

to see if "what"?

[RichardJActon]

to see if "what"?

sorry cut off the end of that sentence, i've fixed with and edit and expanded on the line above which is the core of problem.

[davidgohel]

I think you are mixing formats

This appears to be similar to #168, so I tried loading {officedown} and {officer} to see if this fixed the problem as it did in the previous issue - this had no effect.

I disagree, I can clearly see it working:

---
title: "Untitled"
output: officedown::rdocx_document
date: "2026-02-10"
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```

```{r}
suppressPackageStartupMessages({
	library(dplyr)
	library(flextable)
	library(officer)
	library(officedown)
})
```
example

```{r}
tibble(
	x = c("A","A","B","B"), y = "text", y_url = "https://example.com"
) %>%
	flextable(col_keys = c("x", "y")) %>% 
	compose(
		j = "y",
		value = as_paragraph(hyperlink_text(x = y, url = y_url))
	) %>%
	merge_v(j = "x") %>% 
	border_inner() %>%
	autofit()
```

I think you are asking to fix the quarto limitations right ? https://ardata-fr.github.io/flextable-book/faq.html#does-flextable-work-with-quarto

[RichardJActon]

Thanks for checking this out, I was unaware of that limitation. It is not all that often that I generate MS office format outputs, mostly html and pdf so I hadn't encountered this particular edge case before with flextable.

I'm a little confused are you saying that is there a way to use officedown in conjunction with quarto in a way that makes this work, or that it is a known limitation when using quarto even in conjunction with officedown instead of Quatro's built-in office format outputs? As if I take your example above, save it as a .qmd file and render it with quarto I get an html output - as no format: is set it defaults to html. Am I remembering correctly that output: was the rmarkdown analog to format: so are you rendering this with rmarkdown not quarto? In other words: what command are you rendering this example with where it gives you working hyperlinks in a .docx file?