Thanks for your response!

I haven't done anything fancy though: Just made the Title and the Subtitle 
in the reference document left justified - is this not supported?

On Friday, June 14, 2019 at 3:56:17 PM UTC+10, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
>
> Only certain changes to the reference.docx  will make 
> a difference, as outlined in the manual (which gives 
> a list of the styles you can tweak). 
>
> Oliver Baumann <ne...-WPTjrydoUPgeaOpM6FAJmQkbCANdLtlA@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
>
> > I use pandoc (version 2.5) on Linux to convert Markdown to DOCX: 
> > 
> > pandoc -s file.md -t docx --reference-doc=style-ref.docx  -o file.docx 
> > 
> > I created the file style-ref.docx via pandoc 
> > --print-default-data-file=reference.docx  > style-ref.docx and then 
> > modified it in MS Word. 
> > 
> > However the formatting changes saved to style-ref.docx do not seem to be 
> > applied to the result document. 
> > 
> > What's going wrong? 
> > 
> > How can I debug this? Calling pandoc with --verbose doesn't give any 
> more 
> > clues. 
> > 
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