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Every phpdocx version includes new features and improvements. Previously unsupported features may have been added to newer releases, or past issues may have been corrected.
My experience, on phpdocx, is that template document works very well just if you use it only once, if you want to chain two or more, it doesn't work, probably it's due to some missing reinitialisation, but i don't have time to search where...