Repeated footer for long tables

[cwilso6]

I wondering if it is possible to add a feature for repeating the footer for each page of a long table. Here is a basic example of the challenge.

---
title: "Untitled"
format: 
  docx:
    keep-md: false
---

library(flextable)
library(officer)
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)

ft <- flextable(mtcars)
ft |> add_footer_lines("Some additional info about table") |>
  paginate(hdr_ftr = TRUE, init = FALSE) #not complete sure this is need or helpful

which produced:

and what I am hoping for is

which was not straightforward I inserted a row below in the second to last row on the first page, merged the new cells, added a border on the top of the new row, and left-aligned the text. I recognize that this can be done manually but my team is hoping to automate the report generation as it will be generated from a shiny app.

[davidgohel]

Hello, what you are asking is not possible because MS Word does not come with a table footer concept. It is not feasible. The only workaround would be to add the table in its proper section and to add a section page footer where your content will repeated until the section is closed.

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