Preserve indentations of nested bullet list when copying and pasting to plain text from Word

Question

If I have a nested bulleted list in Word, such as:

When I paste it into Notepad or any other plain text document, the bullets lose their indents:

How can I make the plain text version automatically keep the original spacing / indentations so that I don't need to manually go add spaces?

_{Ideally it would output Markdown like this.}

To clarify: I'm asking how I can set the Copy operation of Word to understand to insert "tab" characters (which are plain text) into the values in the clipboard so that everything looks good when I paste.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '19 at 19:15

This does not seem possible in Microsoft Word

Open your document in Libreoffice Writer instead. Copy-pasting a list from Writer to a plain text editor keeps the correct indents and bullet points

• Content
    ◦ Nested content
• Content
    ◦ content 2.1
        ▪ content 2.1.1
            • content 2.1.1.1

Preserve indentations of nested bullet list when copying and pasting to plain text from Word

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