It'd be nice to change how this is laid out for the reasons pointed out, but we currently hard code that decision.

### Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/3999

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<sup>Originally posted by **jtrecenti** January 17, 2023</sup>
Hi! Thank you very much for developing Quarto. It is awesome.

I was trying to tweak table styles in MS Word (painful, but needed) when I realized that this code:

```
---
title: "Untitled"
format: docx
---

Lets's see @fig-aaa.

```{r}
#| label: fig-aaa
#| fig-cap: a nice figure.
plot(1:10)
```

generates this document:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1425970/213029492-7b20fb86-3247-4baf-9f60-700f2b276a63.png)

Note the "+" sign on the top left of the image and the table styling options at the top menu, indicating that we are inside a table.

So, apparently, when we use `fig-cap:`, it wraps the figure and the caption inside a 1-cell table. 

Two questions

1. Is this the desired behavior?
2. Is it possible to turn it off?

Thanks!
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rich-iannone
2023-01-18T15:09:58Z
cscheid
enhancement crossref tables
v1.4
open
Figure rendered inside a table in MS Word when using fig-cap
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/4004