Preserving Bullets and Numbers in Exported Text

If you plan to export an InDesign story to an RTF file, you’ll need to convert the automatic numbers (or bullets) to text—otherwise, they’ll be stripped out of the converted document.

To preserve automatic bullets and numbers, select your list and choose Type > Bulleted & Numbered Lists > Convert Bullets and Numbering to Text.



Or simply right-click and choose from the menu at your cursor.



You will now be able to select the numbers or bullets as text. The numbers will no longer be “live,” but they will survive intact when you export the story.