alignment of a flextable on the page when rendering R Markdown to MS Word

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I've been having great luck with customizing flextable tables in my R Markdown documents. However, I am struggling to change the location of a table on the page. It seems the tables are centered on the page by default. I'd like one of my tables aligned to the left margin. How do I do that?

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I have just added an option to enable that. Now you can use chunk option ft.align

---
output: word_document
---

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


```{r ft.align="left"}
library(flextable)
regulartable(cars)
```

I ran into the same problem and the solution worked just fine after updating "flextable" from 0.5.4 and 0.5.5 to get this to work.

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