diff --git a/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php b/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php
index 72446ae744..9a4d86238c 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ protected function fixBrokenMacros($documentPart)
         $fixedDocumentPart = $documentPart;
 
         $fixedDocumentPart = preg_replace_callback(
-            '|\$[^{]*\{[^}]*\}|U',
+            '|\$(?:<[^{]*)?\{[^}]*\}|U',
             function ($match) {
                 return strip_tags($match[0]);
             },