Manually create a table and automatically number its caption, word output

Question

I'd like to display my table caption on top of a manually typed table. I'm using the following code but the caption does not show in the knitted output. Please see how I could improve my code. Thank you and happy new year.

---
title:
author:
date:
output:
  word_document:
    toc: yes
  highlight: tango
documentclass: book
---

[Table: table name] 
| column 1 | column 2 | column 3|
| -------- | -------- | --------|
| 1 | a | b | 
| 2 | c | d | 

Answer 1

Pandoc's syntax for tables is

: table name

| column 1 | column 2 | column 3|
| -------- | -------- | --------|
| 1 | a | b | 
| 2 | c | d |

This is how it looks like in Word:

_{And belated happy new year to you too!}