Remove Extra Spaces

About the Remove Extra Spaces Tool

We built this tool to be a simple and fast solution for cleaning up messy text. Often, when you copy and paste text from sources like emails, PDFs, or other websites, you get a lot of unwanted whitespace. This can include extra spaces between words, indentations at the beginning of lines, and unnecessary empty lines. Our tool removes all of this with just a few clicks.

It's designed for writers, editors, developers, and data analysts who need to quickly normalize text. By providing granular options, you can choose exactly how to clean your content—whether you want to keep line breaks but remove empty lines, or collapse the entire text into a single, clean line. The entire process runs in your browser, so your text is never sent to our servers, ensuring your data is private and the tool is lightning-fast.

How to Use the Tool

• Paste your text into the "Input Text" editor on the left.
• The "Cleaned Output" on the right will update in real-time as you type or change the options.
• Use the checkboxes in the "Options" panel to select the cleaning actions you want to perform.
• You can combine options, like collapsing multiple spaces and also removing empty lines.
• Use the buttons to copy the cleaned text to your clipboard or clear the editors to start over.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is considered "whitespace"?

In this tool, "whitespace" refers to space characters, tabs, and line breaks (the invisible characters that move the cursor to the next line). These characters are often the cause of formatting issues when pasting text between different applications.

What's the difference between "Trim spaces from each line" and "Trim spaces from start & end"?

"Trim spaces from each line" will remove any spaces or tabs at the beginning and end of every single line in your text. "Trim spaces from start & end" only removes whitespace from the very beginning and very end of the entire block of text.

Will this tool remove tabs?

Yes. The "Collapse multiple spaces into one" option is designed to replace any sequence of whitespace characters (including spaces and tabs) with a single space. This is a great way to standardize spacing in your document.

Is the text I enter private and secure?

Yes, absolutely. All the text cleaning and formatting happens directly in your web browser. None of the content you enter is ever sent to our servers, so your data remains completely private and secure.

How do I get rid of all the line breaks in my text?

Simply check the "Remove all line breaks" option. This will replace every line break with a single space, effectively combining all your text into one continuous line. If you also have "Collapse multiple spaces" checked, it will ensure the final text is perfectly cleaned.