How can this be harder than creating table with Word? Word always gets in the way. Word appears to be easier but down the road, it always end up as a painful process.
For me just the benefit of being mergable and delegating styling at the end of the tool chain is just plain great.
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables
Edit: rendering issues!
I think I'll just "preprocess" the file, looking for something like !csvtable(filename.csv).
Wrote the script (it worked), but some specific complex features from Word still were missed ("how do I do a reference to a picture?") and couldn't be easily supported by pandoc or this script.
Though for a brief time of going full-mode procrastinator and writing another markup language...
Then I had to admit the whole thing wasn't really working and now recommend we move back to Microsoft Word because it's easier.
A day of Total fail, and procrastination, and making everyone install MikTex, pandoc and Python.
I hope I don't regret for suggesting we use Git...