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BUG REPORT: Unwanted Asterisks Appearing When Copying Text from Copilot Output
To the Copilot Development Team and Community, I am consistently encountering a bug that inserts unwanted asterisks (*) into text copied from Copilot's generated output. This issue is proving to be ...
Hi Vivek, the reason for that is the asterisks are what Copilot uses to make text bold, **example bold text**, so it's exporting it exactly as Copilot input it. I agree though, that it would be better to not have them when using the copy function.
There's a few workarounds that can immediately help your workflow, however:
- You can highlight the text, and then copy and paste.
- You can ask Copilot to "only output plain text, no formatting", and then there will be no bold and no asterisks.
- If your task is repetitive, which it sounds like it is, you could build a Copilot Agent (in Copilot, select 'Create an agent') for that task and in its instructions request it "only output plain text, no formatting". That way you'll never need to mention it again, it will always output plain text.
Hope that helps!
Chris Lozeau