diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8b147ca8..b0eda1bb 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: officer
 Type: Package
 Title: Manipulation of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint Documents
-Version: 0.4.5.012
+Version: 0.4.5.013
 Authors@R: c(
     person("David", "Gohel", role = c("aut", "cre"),
     email = "david.gohel@ardata.fr"),
diff --git a/R/custom_properties.R b/R/custom_properties.R
index 19fbb867..14f060aa 100644
--- a/R/custom_properties.R
+++ b/R/custom_properties.R
@@ -1,28 +1,34 @@
 #' @importFrom xml2 xml_children
-read_custom_properties <- function( package_dir ){
+read_custom_properties <- function(package_dir) {
   filename <- file.path(package_dir, "docProps/custom.xml")
-  if( !file.exists(filename) ) {
+  if (!file.exists(filename)) {
     filename <- system.file(package = "officer", "template/custom.xml")
   }
   doc <- read_xml(filename)
   all_children <- xml_children(doc)
+
   pid_values <- vapply(all_children, xml_attr, NA_character_, "pid")
   name_values <- vapply(all_children, xml_attr, NA_character_, "name")
-  value_values <- vapply(all_children, function(x) {as.character(xml_child(x, 1))}, NA_character_)
+  value_values <- vapply(all_children, function(x) {
+    as.character(xml_child(x, 1))
+  }, NA_character_)
+  value_values <- gsub("<vt:lpwstr/>", "", value_values, fixed = TRUE)
   value_values <- gsub("<vt:lpwstr>", "", value_values, fixed = TRUE)
   value_values <- gsub("</vt:lpwstr>", "", value_values, fixed = TRUE)
   str <- c(pid_values, name_values, value_values)
 
-  z <- matrix(str, ncol = 3,
-    dimnames = list(NULL, c("pid", "name", "value")))
+  z <- matrix(str,
+    ncol = 3,
+    dimnames = list(NULL, c("pid", "name", "value"))
+  )
   z <- list(data = z)
   class(z) <- "custom_properties"
   z
 }
 
-`[<-.custom_properties` <- function( x, i, j, value ){
-  if( !i %in% x$data[,"name"] ) {
-    if(nrow(x$data)<1) {
+`[<-.custom_properties` <- function(x, i, j, value) {
+  if (!i %in% x$data[, "name"]) {
+    if (nrow(x$data) < 1) {
       pid <- 2
     } else {
       pid <- max(as.integer(x$data[, "pid"])) + 1L
@@ -30,37 +36,40 @@ read_custom_properties <- function( package_dir ){
     new <- matrix(c(as.character(pid), i, value), ncol = 3)
     x$data <- rbind(x$data, new)
   } else {
-    x$data[x$data[,"name"] %in% i, j] <- value
+    x$data[x$data[, "name"] %in% i, j] <- value
   }
   x
 }
-`[.custom_properties` <- function( x, i, j ){
-  if(nrow(x$data) < 1) {
+`[.custom_properties` <- function(x, i, j) {
+  if (nrow(x$data) < 1) {
     return(character())
   }
-  if(missing(i)) {
+  if (missing(i)) {
     x$data[, j]
   } else {
-    x$data[x$data[,"name"] %in% i, j]
+    x$data[x$data[, "name"] %in% i, j]
   }
 }
 
-write_custom_properties <- function(custom_props, package_dir){
+write_custom_properties <- function(custom_props, package_dir) {
   xml_props <- sprintf(
     "<property fmtid=\"{D5CDD505-2E9C-101B-9397-08002B2CF9AE}\" pid=\"%s\" name=\"%s\"><vt:lpwstr>%s</vt:lpwstr></property>",
-    custom_props$data[,1],
-    custom_props$data[,2],
-    custom_props$data[,3])
+    custom_props$data[, 1],
+    custom_props$data[, 2],
+    custom_props$data[, 3]
+  )
 
-  xml_ <- c("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>",
-            "<Properties ",
-            "xmlns=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/custom-properties\" ",
-            "xmlns:vt=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/docPropsVTypes\">",
-            xml_props,
-            "</Properties>")
-  props_dir = file.path(package_dir, "docProps")
+  xml_ <- c(
+    "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>",
+    "<Properties ",
+    "xmlns=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/custom-properties\" ",
+    "xmlns:vt=\"http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/docPropsVTypes\">",
+    xml_props,
+    "</Properties>"
+  )
+  props_dir <- file.path(package_dir, "docProps")
   dir.create(props_dir, recursive = TRUE, showWarnings = FALSE)
   filename <- file.path(props_dir, "custom.xml")
-  writeLines(enc2utf8(xml_), filename, useBytes=TRUE)
+  writeLines(enc2utf8(xml_), filename, useBytes = TRUE)
   invisible()
 }