phpWord - Cannot add PreserveText in Section

Question

Not got a lot of experience with phpWord and coming across the following error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'BadMethodCallException' with message 'Cannot add PreserveText in Section.'

Its happening when using the below line:

$phpWord = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::load($document_location . $document_name . '.docx'); 

The document definitely exists and I can save the document and readfile as well.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I had the same Problem (also asked here) and for me loading the document worked after I removed all mail merge fields from it. Maybe this works for you, too