Paste an answer from the Copilot app, website or sidebar and get it ready for wherever it is going: the superscript citation marks, markdown, emoji and hidden characters cleaned here, or the structure converted for Word and Google Docs on the pages below.
The Copilot chat app copies answers as text with superscript citation numbers (¹ ²), a Learn more list, markdown-style **bold** and bullets, and often emoji. Paste the answer above to strip the markup and hidden characters and keep bold and bullets as characters that survive anywhere; the superscript marks are removed on the Copilot pages of this site. For Word or Google Docs, use the matching page below, which converts the structure instead of removing it.
For chat and email — Gmail, Outlook, Notion, Discord, WhatsApp, Slack — the platform formatters read Copilot’s markdown the same way.
Copilot is the assistant most people did not go looking for: it is in Windows, in Edge, in Bing and in the Microsoft 365 apps, so a lot of text gets written in it almost by accident. Its chat answers are short and templated — a framing sentence, three to five bullets with bold lead-ins, a closing line — and when it has searched the web, each cited sentence ends with a superscript number and the answer ends with a Learn more list of links. Bold lines stand in for headings. Emoji appear freely in the casual conversation styles. Tables are markdown pipes.
Copy gives you all of that as text. The superscripts and the asterisks show literally in Word, Docs, email and every social box, and the Learn more links come along as a block. Copilot inside Word and Excel — the Microsoft 365 version — is a different product that writes into the document directly and needs none of this; everything here is for the chat app.
The editor above removes. Paste a Copilot answer and the markdown goes, links become readable text with the address, hidden characters from quoted web pages are stripped, and bold and bullets can be kept as Unicode characters that plain-text boxes cannot strip. That is the tool for LinkedIn and X posts, Upwork proposals, plain-text email, CRM notes and forms. The preferences add the rest — Remove emojis is the one Copilot answers need most — along with the em dash replacement and the full markdown strip.
The destination pages convert. Copilot to Word and Copilot to Google Docs remove the superscript citation marks on paste — digits glued to a word, never the ² in km² — keep the Learn more links for your references, and turn the bold lead-ins and bullets into real document formatting. For Copilot's tables, the ChatGPT table to Excel and Google Sheets converters read the same markdown pipes. For Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp, Telegram and Notion, the platform formatters linked above do the same for chat and email.
Removing a superscript number is not the same as removing the source. Every Copilot page here keeps the Learn more list as clickable links, so the destination can cite properly — footnotes in Word or Docs, a references block, a Source column in a sheet. Delete the list once your citations are in. When the provenance of one claim matters, ask Copilot to name the source in the sentence ("according to the 2025 report") rather than relying on a mark that will be stripped.
Copilot's version of the generated-text tell is its template: the same framing sentence, the same bold-lead-in bullets, the same closing offer, an emoji per section in the friendlier styles. The tools fix the markup and the punctuation in one paste — the em dash remover handles the dash question, the Remove emojis toggle handles the rest — and the template you break by editing: cut the framing and the sign-off, merge bullets that are one point, let one paragraph run longer than the others. Asking Copilot for the Precise style at the start produces plainer text to begin with.
This page for plain-text destinations — social posts, proposals, plain email, forms. Copilot to Word or Copilot to Google Docs for documents, where the superscript citation marks are removed and the structure converted. The ChatGPT table pages for Copilot's tables.
No. Microsoft 365 Copilot writes into the document directly. These pages are for answers copied from the Copilot chat app, website, and Windows or Edge sidebars.
On the Copilot to Word and Copilot to Google Docs pages, yes. The editor on this page leaves superscripts alone so that units like km² are never damaged; use a destination page or delete them in the output.
They are kept as links so you can cite properly in the destination. Delete the list once your own citations are in place.
No. Everything on this page runs in your browser with client-side JavaScript. Your Copilot answer is never sent to a server, stored or logged.