I have an Rmarkdown that I am trying to render to a word document. I have an image that I would like to take up the full width of the page and I am specifying the width as an argument when I include the markdown. However, regardless of what I do, I can’t seem to get the figure to be wider than 14.82cm. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Here’s a reprex. Save the following RMarkdown somewhere.

---
title: "Untitled"
output:
  word_document: default
date: '2024-04-23'
---

Some text.

![5cm wide figure](Danmark_v2024a_Figure_04.png){ width=5cm }

![14cm wide figure](Danmark_v2024a_Figure_04.png){ width=14cm }

![15cm wide figure](Danmark_v2024a_Figure_04.png){ width=15cm }

![17cm wide figure](Danmark_v2024a_Figure_04.png){ width=17cm }

![100% wide figure](Danmark_v2024a_Figure_04.png){ width=100% }

You’ll also need to save this figure in the working directory as Danmark_v2024a_Figure_04.png – this is the figure that I am trying to include. Once you’ve got it setup, use Rstudio to knit it to Word. Then open the resulting word doc – you’ll see that the width of the largest figures is limited to 14.82cm.

How do I get a “full-width” 17cm wide figure?