diff --git a/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php b/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php
index 96b379c1..75cc7839 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php
@@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@ class TemplateProcessor
     {
         $results = array();
         for ($i = 1; $i <= $count; $i++) {
-            $results[] = preg_replace('/\$\{(.*?)(:.*)?\}/', '\${\1#' . $i . '\2}', $xmlBlock);
+            $results[] = preg_replace('/\$\{([^:]*?)(:.*?)?\}/', '\${\1#' . $i . '\2}', $xmlBlock);
         }
 
         return $results;