Customizing Table style in Word Output via Quarto

Bug description

I encountered an issue where a table generated with pd.to_markdown in Jupyter Lab loses its borders when exported to Word using Quarto. The borders appear correctly in the PDF output.

How can I resolve the issue of missing table borders in the Word output?
How can I adjust the table style, such as center alignment, when generating Word documents? I am aware of the capabilities of knitr in R Markdown but need a solution entirely in Python.

Thank you for your assistance.

Steps to reproduce

import seaborn as sns
from IPython.display import Markdown, display
mpg = sns.load_dataset("mpg").head(3)
display(Markdown(mpg.to_markdown(index = False)))

: Demonstration of pipe table syntax

bug_demo.zip

Expected behavior

Expected: The table should have borders in both PDF and Word outputs.

Actual behavior

Actual: The table has borders in the PDF output but lacks borders in the Word output.

Your environment

Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04
Jupyter Lab Version:
IPython : 8.18.1
ipykernel : 6.29.4
ipywidgets : 8.1.2
jupyter_client : 8.6.1
jupyter_core : 5.7.2
jupyter_server : 2.14.0
jupyterlab : 4.1.8
nbclient : 0.10.0
nbconvert : 7.16.4
nbformat : 5.10.4
notebook : 7.1.3
qtconsole : 5.5.2
traitlets : 5.14.3

Quarto check output

Quarto 1.5.45
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
      Deno version 1.41.0: OK
      Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.5.45
      Path: /opt/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: v2024.06
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: TinyTex
      Path: /home/jade/.TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux
      Version: 2024

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.9.6 (Conda)
      Path: /home/jade/anaconda3/envs/fnirs/bin/python
      Jupyter: 5.7.2
      Kernels: python3

[✓] Checking Jupyter engine render....OK

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.4.0
      Path: /usr/lib/R
      LibPaths:
        - /home/jade/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.4
        - /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
        - /usr/lib/R/site-library
        - /usr/lib/R/library
      knitr: 1.46
      rmarkdown: 2.26

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

Start with the attached bug_demo.zip and the Python/Jupyter reproduction using pd.to_markdown, display(Markdown(...)), and Quarto's Word and PDF renders. Compare the generated outputs and investigate the Quarto/Pandoc document-conversion path; done means table borders and requested alignment are preserved in Word as they are in PDF, with a reproducible test or documented resolution.