diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a273326a..735f6d4d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ v0.16.0 (xx dec 2018)
 ### Fixed
 - Fix regex in `cloneBlock` function @nicoder #1269
 - HTML Title Writer loses text when Title contains a TextRun instead a string. @begnini #1436
+- Fix regex in fixBrokenMacros, make it less greedy @MuriloSo @brainwood @yurii-sio2 #1502 #1345
 - 240 twips are being added to line spacing, should not happen when using lineRule fixed @troosan #1509 #1505
 - Adding table layout to the generated HTML @aarangara #1441
 - Fix loading of Sharepoint document @Garrcomm #1498
diff --git a/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php b/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php
index 0d4bfdeb..86d0c07d 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/TemplateProcessor.php
@@ -442,17 +442,13 @@ class TemplateProcessor
      */
     protected function fixBrokenMacros($documentPart)
     {
-        $fixedDocumentPart = $documentPart;
-
-        $fixedDocumentPart = preg_replace_callback(
-            '|\$[^{]*\{[^}]*\}|U',
+        return preg_replace_callback(
+            '/\$(?:\{|[^{$]*\>\{)[^}$]*\}/U',
             function ($match) {
                 return strip_tags($match[0]);
             },
-            $fixedDocumentPart
+            $documentPart
         );
-
-        return $fixedDocumentPart;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/tests/PhpWord/TemplateProcessorTest.php b/tests/PhpWord/TemplateProcessorTest.php
index 1513486e..8839200d 100644
--- a/tests/PhpWord/TemplateProcessorTest.php
+++ b/tests/PhpWord/TemplateProcessorTest.php
@@ -277,6 +277,38 @@ final class TemplateProcessorTest extends \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Template macros can be fixed.
+     *
+     * @covers ::fixBrokenMacros
+     * @test
+     */
+    public function testFixBrokenMacros()
+    {
+        $templateProcessor = new TestableTemplateProcesor();
+
+        $fixed = $templateProcessor->fixBrokenMacros('<w:r><w:t>normal text</w:t></w:r>');
+        $this->assertEquals('<w:r><w:t>normal text</w:t></w:r>', $fixed);
+
+        $fixed = $templateProcessor->fixBrokenMacros('<w:r><w:t>${documentContent}</w:t></w:r>');
+        $this->assertEquals('<w:r><w:t>${documentContent}</w:t></w:r>', $fixed);
+
+        $fixed = $templateProcessor->fixBrokenMacros('<w:r><w:t>$</w:t><w:t>{documentContent}</w:t></w:r>');
+        $this->assertEquals('<w:r><w:t>${documentContent}</w:t></w:r>', $fixed);
+
+        $fixed = $templateProcessor->fixBrokenMacros('<w:r><w:t>$1500</w:t><w:t>${documentContent}</w:t></w:r>');
+        $this->assertEquals('<w:r><w:t>$1500</w:t><w:t>${documentContent}</w:t></w:r>', $fixed);
+
+        $fixed = $templateProcessor->fixBrokenMacros('<w:r><w:t>$1500</w:t><w:t>$</w:t><w:t>{documentContent}</w:t></w:r>');
+        $this->assertEquals('<w:r><w:t>$1500</w:t><w:t>${documentContent}</w:t></w:r>', $fixed);
+
+        $fixed = $templateProcessor->fixBrokenMacros('<w:r><w:t>25$ plus some info {hint}</w:t></w:r>');
+        $this->assertEquals('<w:r><w:t>25$ plus some info {hint}</w:t></w:r>', $fixed);
+
+        $fixed = $templateProcessor->fixBrokenMacros('<w:t>$</w:t></w:r><w:bookmarkStart w:id="0" w:name="_GoBack"/><w:bookmarkEnd w:id="0"/><w:r><w:t xml:space="preserve">15,000.00. </w:t></w:r><w:r w:rsidR="0056499B"><w:t>$</w:t></w:r><w:r w:rsidR="00573DFD" w:rsidRPr="00573DFD"><w:rPr><w:iCs/></w:rPr><w:t>{</w:t></w:r><w:proofErr w:type="spellStart"/><w:r w:rsidR="00573DFD" w:rsidRPr="00573DFD"><w:rPr><w:iCs/></w:rPr><w:t>variable_name</w:t></w:r><w:proofErr w:type="spellEnd"/><w:r w:rsidR="00573DFD" w:rsidRPr="00573DFD"><w:rPr><w:iCs/></w:rPr><w:t>}</w:t></w:r>');
+        $this->assertEquals('<w:t>$</w:t></w:r><w:bookmarkStart w:id="0" w:name="_GoBack"/><w:bookmarkEnd w:id="0"/><w:r><w:t xml:space="preserve">15,000.00. </w:t></w:r><w:r w:rsidR="0056499B"><w:t>${variable_name}</w:t></w:r>', $fixed);
+    }
+
     public function testMainPartNameDetection()
     {
         $templateProcessor = new TemplateProcessor(__DIR__ . '/_files/templates/document22-xml.docx');
diff --git a/tests/PhpWord/_includes/TestableTemplateProcesor.php b/tests/PhpWord/_includes/TestableTemplateProcesor.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f76da417
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/PhpWord/_includes/TestableTemplateProcesor.php
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * This file is part of PHPWord - A pure PHP library for reading and writing
+ * word processing documents.
+ *
+ * PHPWord is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser
+ * General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please read the LICENSE
+ * file that was distributed with this source code. For the full list of
+ * contributors, visit https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/contributors.
+ *
+ * @see         https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord
+ * @copyright   2010-2018 PHPWord contributors
+ * @license     http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt LGPL version 3
+ */
+
+namespace PhpOffice\PhpWord;
+
+class TestableTemplateProcesor extends TemplateProcessor
+{
+    public function __construct()
+    {
+    }
+
+    public function fixBrokenMacros($documentPart)
+    {
+        return parent::fixBrokenMacros($documentPart);
+    }
+}