diff --git a/lib/src/docx.dart b/lib/src/docx.dart
index ab92bc0..874ecb3 100644
--- a/lib/src/docx.dart
+++ b/lib/src/docx.dart
@@ -75,11 +75,11 @@ class DocxEditor {
       if (texts.isEmpty)
         continue;
 
-      String original = texts.map((t) {
+      final String original = texts.map((t) {
         return t.innerText;
       }).join();
 
-      String replaced = original.replaceAllMapped(pattern, (match) {
+      final String replaced = original.replaceAllMapped(pattern, (match) {
         ReplaceContent rc = replaceMap[match[0]]!;
         return rc.img == null ? rc.value! : '';
       });
@@ -87,12 +87,10 @@ class DocxEditor {
       if (original == replaced)
         continue;
 
-      final firstRun = paragraph.findElements('w:r').first;
-      final newRun = firstRun.copy();
-      newRun.findAllElements('w:t').first.innerText = replaced; // Update with new text
-
-      // replace the first w:r with the new
-      firstRun.replace(newRun);
+      XmlElement firstRun = paragraph.findElements('w:r').first;
+      for (XmlElement xmlText in paragraph.findAllElements('w:t')) // clear text
+        xmlText.innerText = '';
+      firstRun.findAllElements('w:t').first.innerText = replaced;
     }
 
       return [documentXml, documentXmlRels];