Remove Extra Spaces
Clean up text by collapsing extra spaces and blank lines.
This has extra spaces and blank lines.
Paste messy text to tidy it up — collapse repeated spaces into one, trim each line, and remove extra blank lines. Great for cleaning up copy-pasted content.
Formula / method
Examples
"a b"
reduced to one
What the cleaner does
This tool tidies messy text by collapsing runs of repeated spaces into a single space, trimming the spaces that hang off the start and end of each line, and removing empty or blank lines. Text pasted from PDFs, emails, spreadsheets or web pages often carries invisible extra spacing, double gaps after full stops, or stray tabs, and this normalises all of it in one pass.
Everything happens in your browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded anywhere.
When to reach for it
It is handy before importing text into a database, tidying copied content for a CMS, cleaning up code comments, or simply making a document read consistently after several people have edited it. Removing double spacing between sentences is a frequent style requirement that this handles automatically.
One thing to watch: collapsing all whitespace can disturb text where spacing is meaningful, such as indented code or ASCII tables, so review the result in those cases. To then check the tidied length, the Word Count tool gives you the final word and character totals.
Where it's used
- Cleaning text copied out of PDFs, emails or spreadsheets
- Tidying pasted content before it goes into a CMS
- Collapsing double spaces after full stops to a single space
- Preparing text for import into a database or app
- Cleaning up stray spacing in code comments or config text
Real-world examples
- 'This has extra spaces' becomes 'This has extra spaces'
- Four blank lines between paragraphs collapse down to one
- Trailing spaces are trimmed from the end of every line
- Text pasted from a PDF with ragged spacing reads consistently again
Did you know?
The habit of putting two spaces after a period comes from the monospaced typewriter era; modern proportional fonts space sentences correctly with just one, so double spaces are usually cleaned out.
FAQ
Does it remove all line breaks?
No — it keeps single line breaks and limits runs of blank lines to one. It only collapses repeated spaces and trims whitespace around each line.