Does this work with Copilot inside Word?
You do not need it there — Copilot in Microsoft 365 writes directly into the document. This page is for answers copied from the Copilot chat app, website or sidebar.
Paste an answer from the Copilot app or website and copy it into Word as real formatting — bold, bullets, headings and links as Word styles — with the superscript ¹² citation marks and the Learn more list removed. For when you are not using Copilot inside Word itself.
Copilot's copy gives text with superscript citation numbers (¹ ²) after cited sentences, a Learn more list of links, and markdown-style bold and bullets that Word shows literally. Paste the answer into the editor above: the superscripts are removed on paste, the structure is rebuilt, and Copy puts rich text on the clipboard that Word pastes as real bold, lists and headings. Nothing is uploaded.
Use the copy button under the answer or select the text. Copilot's copy gives plain or markdown text with citation superscripts; either form is read correctly here.
Markdown becomes real structure, hidden characters are removed, and the editor shows exactly what will be pasted.
Click Copy and paste into Word. Headings, bold, lists and quotes arrive as native formatting.
Microsoft ships Copilot in two places that are easy to confuse. Copilot inside Word — part of Microsoft 365 Copilot — writes directly into the document: you ask for a draft and it appears as Word text with Word styles, no clipboard involved. If you have that, you do not need this page. The other Copilot is the chat app and website (and the Windows and Edge sidebars), which anyone can use, and which answers in a chat window you then have to get into Word somehow. That is the Copilot this page is for, and its copy button is where the trouble starts.
A copied Copilot chat answer carries three things Word does not want: superscript citation numbers after the sentences it drew from the web, a Learn more list of the links those numbers point to, and a markdown-ish layer of **bold** lead-ins and hyphen bullets that Word prints as symbols. Paste it straight in and you get a paragraph that reads "…in 2025¹²" followed by **Key point:** in literal asterisks.
The superscript citation marks are removed on paste. The rule is narrow on purpose: a run of superscript digits glued to the end of a word or a punctuation mark is a citation; a superscript after a unit — km², m³ — is not, and is left alone. The Learn more list at the end is kept as a list of links, because it is the only record of where the answer came from; delete it in the editor once you have cited what you need, or leave it as a references block. Links embedded in the text itself stay clickable in Word.
The markdown layer converts. Copilot's bold lead-ins become real bold, its hyphen bullets become real Word bullets, its numbered steps become a numbered list, and the bold lines it uses instead of headings are kept bold — promote them to Heading styles with the toolbar if you want them in Word's navigation pane. Emoji, which Copilot adds freely in its more casual conversation styles, are visible in the editor and quick to delete; the Balanced and Precise styles produce fewer of them in the first place.
Copilot chat answers are shorter and more templated than most assistants': a sentence of framing, three to five bullets each opening with a bold phrase, a closing line. That pastes into Word as a tidy block once the markup is converted, and it reads as generated for exactly the same reason — the same shape every time. Merge bullets that are one point, cut the framing sentence, and let one paragraph run longer than the rest. The hidden characters — non-breaking spaces from quoted web text, the occasional zero-width character — are stripped automatically, which is why the pasted lines wrap where they should.
Real bold and italic, bulleted and numbered lists with nesting, Heading styles where you promoted a bold line, indented quotes, clickable links and a monospaced font for inline code. No superscript marks, no background colour, no foreign font. Choose Keep Source Formatting when Word's paste-options button appears, and the text lands in your document's own styles. Tables do not travel on the rich copy; Copilot's markdown tables go through the ChatGPT table to Excel converter and paste into Word as a table from there.
You do not need it there — Copilot in Microsoft 365 writes directly into the document. This page is for answers copied from the Copilot chat app, website or sidebar.
Yes. Superscript digits attached to a word or punctuation mark are removed on paste; superscripts after a unit such as km² are kept. The Learn more list of links stays so you can cite properly.
Copilot often writes a bold line where another assistant would write a heading. It arrives as bold; promote it to a Heading style with the toolbar if you want it in Word's outline.
They are kept as typed and easy to delete in the editor. Asking Copilot for a Precise or professional style produces fewer of them.
No. The conversion runs in your browser with client-side JavaScript. The Copilot answer is never sent to a server, stored or logged.