List Cleaner

How to remove bullets and numbering from a list

Paste it on the left. The bare items appear on the right as you type, with every marker and all the indentation gone.

Lines that were never list items come back exactly as they were. Nothing is sorted, joined or reordered.

What counts as a marker

Bullets: the hyphen, asterisk and plus you get from markdown, and the round, square, hollow and triangular glyphs that Word, Google Docs and slide decks insert.

Numbering: 1., 1) and (1), plus the lettered and roman forms a nested list produces. Leading spaces and tabs go with them, at any depth.

The rule that keeps your data intact

A marker has to be followed by a space.

That one condition is the whole difference between a list cleaner and a tool that quietly corrupts your text. Without it, a line reading -5 degrees overnight loses its minus sign, and 1.5x growth loses its integer, because both begin exactly the way a marker does.

Content is almost never separated from the character that starts it, and a marker always is. So - Desk lamp is stripped and -5 degrees is not.

Why find and replace is not enough

Because a real pasted list is never one marker.

Copy three levels out of a document and you get numbers at the top, bullets underneath, letters below that, and a different indent on each. That is four separate find-and-replace passes, done in the right order, and the fourth is the one where you widen the pattern a little too far and eat the negative numbers further down.

What usually comes next

A list stripped of its markers is ready to become something else. If it came from several sources it probably has repeats, and the duplicate line remover will strip those and tell you which entries appeared more than once.

If the paste also left gaps between items, the blank line remover closes them, including the ones that only look empty.

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