diff --git a/Classes/PHPWord/Template.php b/Classes/PHPWord/Template.php
index eb6e42d2..3adb44a4 100755
--- a/Classes/PHPWord/Template.php
+++ b/Classes/PHPWord/Template.php
@@ -121,6 +121,35 @@ class PHPWord_Template
         preg_match_all('/\$\{(.*?)}/i', $this->_documentXML, $matches);
         return $matches[1];
     }
+    
+    /**
+     * Clone a table row in a template document
+     * 
+     * @param mixed $search
+     * @param mixed $numberOfClones
+     */
+	public function cloneRow($search, $numberOfClones) {
+        if(substr($search, 0, 2) !== '${' && substr($search, -1) !== '}') {
+            $search = '${'.$search.'}';
+        }
+        		
+		$tagPos = strpos($this->_documentXML, $search);
+		if (!$tagPos) {
+			trigger_error("Can not clone row, template variable not found or variable contains markup.");
+			return false;
+		}
+		$rowStartPos = strrpos($this->_documentXML, "<w:tr ", ((strlen($this->_documentXML) - $tagPos) * -1));
+		$rowEndPos   = strpos($this->_documentXML, "</w:tr>", $tagPos) + 7;
+
+		$result = substr($this->_documentXML, 0, $rowStartPos);
+		$xmlRow = substr($this->_documentXML, $rowStartPos, ($rowEndPos - $rowStartPos));
+		for ($i = 1; $i <= $numberOfClones; $i++) {
+			$result .= preg_replace('/\$\{(.*?)\}/','\${\\1#'.$i.'}', $xmlRow);
+		}
+		$result .= substr($this->_documentXML, $rowEndPos);
+
+		$this->_documentXML = $result;
+	}
 
     /**
      * Save Template
diff --git a/samples/Sample_03_TemplateCloneRow.docx b/samples/Sample_03_TemplateCloneRow.docx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..909f27ab
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diff --git a/samples/Sample_03_TemplateCloneRow.php b/samples/Sample_03_TemplateCloneRow.php
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..eac91b86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/Sample_03_TemplateCloneRow.php
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<?php
+require_once '../Classes/PHPWord.php';
+
+$PHPWord = new PHPWord();
+
+$document = $PHPWord->loadTemplate('Sample_03_TemplateCloneRow.docx');
+
+$document->cloneRow('rowValue', 10);
+
+$document->setValue('rowValue#1', 'Sun');
+$document->setValue('rowValue#2', 'Mercury');
+$document->setValue('rowValue#3', 'Venus');
+$document->setValue('rowValue#4', 'Earth');
+$document->setValue('rowValue#5', 'Mars');
+$document->setValue('rowValue#6', 'Jupiter');
+$document->setValue('rowValue#7', 'Saturn');
+$document->setValue('rowValue#8', 'Uranus');
+$document->setValue('rowValue#9', 'Neptun');
+$document->setValue('rowValue#10', 'Pluto');
+
+$document->setValue('rowNumber#1', '1');
+$document->setValue('rowNumber#2', '2');
+$document->setValue('rowNumber#3', '3');
+$document->setValue('rowNumber#4', '4');
+$document->setValue('rowNumber#5', '5');
+$document->setValue('rowNumber#6', '6');
+$document->setValue('rowNumber#7', '7');
+$document->setValue('rowNumber#8', '8');
+$document->setValue('rowNumber#9', '9');
+$document->setValue('rowNumber#10', '10');
+
+$document->setValue('weekday', date('l'));
+$document->setValue('time', date('H:i'));
+
+$document->save('SolarsystemRepeatingRows.docx');