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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?

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The only way I can see that you could avoid include the numbering is to turn it off prior to copy.

Word Numbers icon

Word will generally include as much information as it can in the copy, and it is up to the recieving application to extract what information it can use.

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But then I lose valuable formatting... I could solve the problem I guess by saving as a text file, but the formatting is very useful while moving data from Word to the external app. – Eric J. Feb 2 '12 at 3:22
Disabling numbering should only remove the numbering formatting - am I missing something? – Paul Feb 2 '12 at 3:26
Also... interestingly... if I copy the text 1. Topic, I don't get the numbering, just Topic. – Eric J. Feb 2 '12 at 3:27
What is the recieving app? – Paul Feb 2 '12 at 3:27
When I have a lot of sub-points (say a. to p.) that sometimes are more than 1 line long (line wrapping), without the numbering, it's not easy to see which lines are a single item. – Eric J. Feb 2 '12 at 3:29
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