Unable to copy/paste 'action item' tick boxes

[Matthew Day]

I'm trying to create a template from a Confluence page that has dozens of action items. I copy the selected area, but when I paste into a blank 'Create Template' page, they come in as bulleted items, and I cannot select and change them. I can remove the bullets in bulk but cannot change to action items. 

This means a VERY manual process of moving the cursor to each of hundreds of items to select the 'action item' tick box. 

Does anyone know a way to get this done?