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Remove Extra Spaces
Remove extra spaces from text in your browser, collapsing runs and trimming each line.
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Converts text to tidied text in this tab, with nothing sent anywhere.
Runs entirely on your deviceThe conversion happens in this browser tab. Nothing you type is uploaded, logged or stored, which is worth knowing for anything you would not paste into a search box.
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Text picks up messy whitespace constantly - double spaces left after editing, trailing spaces at the ends of lines, padding from a copy-paste out of a formatted document, stray tabs that a form rejects. Tidying it by hand is fiddly precisely because much of the mess is invisible: a trailing space looks like nothing at all until a comparison fails or a field complains. This tool cleans each line, collapsing any run of spaces or tabs down to a single space and trimming the whitespace from both ends, while keeping the lines themselves intact. So a paragraph with erratic spacing becomes evenly spaced, and lines padded with invisible trailing characters are trimmed, without the line structure being disturbed.
Work through the input
- Each line is handled separately, so the line structure of the text is preserved.
- Within a line, any run of spaces or tabs is collapsed to a single space, removing double spaces and stray tabs.
- Leading and trailing whitespace on each line is trimmed, including the invisible trailing spaces that cause silent problems.
- Line breaks between lines are kept, so paragraphs and lists stay as they were.
- The result is evenly spaced text with the hidden padding removed.
When remove extra spaces is useful
Preparing input for a strict field
A form that rejects leading or trailing spaces accepts the tidied text without complaint.
Check the output
- It collapses all internal runs of spaces to one. If you rely on multiple spaces for alignment, that spacing is removed.
- It preserves line breaks; to join everything into one line, use the remove line breaks tool instead.
- Tabs within a line become single spaces, so tab-aligned columns will lose their alignment.
- It does not remove blank lines between paragraphs; that is a separate choice.
- This tidies whitespace only and changes no words.
Questions about Remove Extra Spaces
Does it remove line breaks?
No. It keeps the lines and only tidies the spaces within and around each. Use remove line breaks to join lines.
Will it remove spaces I use for alignment?
Yes. Runs of spaces collapse to one, so deliberate multi-space alignment is lost. That is usually the intent.
Does it handle trailing spaces?
Yes, and those are often the point - invisible trailing spaces that break comparisons are trimmed.
What happens to tabs?
A tab within a line becomes a single space, so tab-aligned columns lose their alignment.
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