When cross referencing tables and figures in RMarkdown via @ref(tab:...) and/or @ref(fig:...) the rendered output will create a link on the number of the respective output. i.e. “Table 1” will only show a link on “1” and likewise “Figure 1” will only show a link on “1”.

Can I extend the linking text so that the link spans the full e.g. “Table 1″/”Figure 1”? If yes, how? I’m looking for a solution that will generically work for both docx and html outputs.

---
output:
  officedown::rdocx_document:
    base_format: "rmarkdown::word_document"
  bookdown::html_document2:
    toc: true
    toc_float: true
    fig_caption: true
    number_sections: false
---

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

library(ggplot2)
library(flextable)

if (!knitr::is_html_output()) {
  library(officedown)
}
```

## My nice iris plot

```{r my-nice-figure, fig.cap = "A really cool figure."}
ggplot(data = iris, aes(x = Sepal.Length, y = Sepal.Width)) +
  geom_point()
```

## My nice iris table

```{r my-nice-table, tab.cap = "A really cool table.", tab.id = "my-nice-table"}
flextable(head(iris))
```

Table @ref(tab:my-nice-table) shows interesting things. The same is true for Figure @ref(fig:my-nice-figure).