Prevent Word from Including Bullet Letter when Copying Text?

Question

I'm copying quite a bit of text from Word into a text-based application, line by line. The word text is structured like this: > 1. Topic a. Item A > b. Item B When I highlight `Item A`, copy, and then paste into the text-based application, I get `a. Item A` rather than just `Item A` as desired. How can I prevent Word from including the bullet letter when copying?

Answer 1

Another option would be to copy the bulleted item but rather than regular paste, select the option to keep text only. This won’t paste the bullet along with the text.

You might need to play with the indents if you've copied several bulleted lines.

Answer 2

The easiest way may be to simply make a copy of your word doc, and clear formatting from all text in that copy. If you need help with doing that, I would be happy to schedule a lesson with you. :) Cheers, Meilani