The current wording of the "Templates" section of the README/manpage does not correctly cover how DOCX output is handled.

This wording suggests that pandoc -D docx will print the default template that is used:

To see the default template that is used, just type

bash
pandoc -D *FORMAT*

where FORMAT is the name of the output format. [...] Exceptions: For odt output, customize the default.opendocument template. For pdf output, customize the default.latex template.

However, pandoc -D docx will not print any output. (Tested with pandoc v1.17.)

I think there should also be an exception added for DOCX output. But I do not know what a correct statement about this would have to be...