I have had to do it multiple times for every paper I’ve published. I do health economics research, which involves a lot of collaboration with physicians and people from other less quantitative fields (eg public health, implementation science, communications / media). From my experience those collaborators are unwilling to look at results until they look “finished” (ie are in the format that the target journal requires) and are part of a Word document that includes the working draft of the paper. Since they want to use Track Changes as version control, I can’t simply generate the tables again as a Word document and end up having to copy and paste them in, which is a huge time suck and runs the risk of making errors.
What are your thoughts on using Google Docs to prototype this? Correct me if I'm wrong in my logic. You're looking for a way to link end results of your analysis to a 'Word' document that will auto-populate with each re-run. The physicians etc. want a 'clean' manuscript that mimics graphs in the format of the preferred paper + has version control.