diff --git a/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php b/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php
index 7a5eaf55bb..e0af589769 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ protected function fixBrokenMacros($documentPart)
         $fixedDocumentPart = $documentPart;
 
         $fixedDocumentPart = preg_replace_callback(
-            '|\$[^{]*\{[^}]*\}|U',
+            '/\$(?:\{|[^{$]*\>\{)[^}$]*\}/U',
             function ($match) {
                 return strip_tags($match[0]);
             },