Prevent Word from Including Bullet Letter when Copying Text

Solution 1:

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

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.

Solution 2:

Hold the Alt button and select the text, Ctrl+C to copy, Ctrl+V to paste it anywhere excluding the bullet letter.

Solution 3:

Old post but had to do it today.

1. Highlight the bullet text by dragging from first letter in word to the end last word only.
2. If you go pass the last letter you will see a half empty space highlighted.
3. Drag the cursor back to end of the last letter if you also hightlight the half space.
4. Copy the line (unfortunately, only one line at a time).

That half empty space (end of each bullet) is the hidden formatting of the bullet. If you copy (double, triple clicking by default), you also copy the bullet or list number.

Solution 4:

ALT select somewhat works. But it is a block select.

I came up with much simpler way:
copy the whole text from Word into your favorite Text editor (Notepad2-Mod, Notepad++).
Now select and  copy only text without any pesky extra chars.