My Alt Text vanished!

I’ve been adding alt text to some .docx files over the past few days (25.2.7.2, macOS Sonoma) and exporting them as PDFs, which are fine. But earlier today, I went back to one of my files, and all of my Alt Texts are missing.

Is this a known bug?

The only thing that I might have done is that I set up a hotkey to bring up the Alt Text menu to save some mouse clicks. But this is happening to some files that I haven’t touched since I did that.

Here’s a sample file. Right-click on the R3 thing, add some Alt Text, and save the file. Then close it and re-open it, and the Alt Text isn’t there any more.
demo.docx (8.6 KB)

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