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Remove Extra Spaces

Clean up messy whitespace — collapse multiple spaces, trim line edges, and remove blank lines in one click.

Remove Extra Spaces

What each option does

  • Collapse multiple spaces to one — Turns word    word into word word. Also collapses tabs mixed with spaces. Useful for text copied from PDFs or spreadsheets.
  • Trim leading & trailing spaces per line — Removes the spaces before the first character and after the last character on each line. Keeps the line itself intact.
  • Remove extra blank lines — Two or more consecutive blank lines are collapsed to a single blank line. Keeps intentional paragraph breaks.
  • Remove ALL spaces — Nuclear option. Strips every space character from the entire text. Useful for cleaning up formatted numbers like 1 234 567 before importing into a spreadsheet.

Frequently Asked Questions

PDFs store text with fixed positioning — when you copy a column of text, the spacing between columns often gets included as literal spaces. Word processors and HTML documents can also have non-breaking spaces ( ) that look like regular spaces but behave differently. This tool collapses both regular spaces and tabs. For non-breaking spaces specifically, combine this with the Find & Replace tool.
Only the "collapse multiple spaces" option affects punctuation spacing, and only if there are multiple spaces around punctuation marks (e.g., Hello , World becomes Hello , World). Single spaces are never touched. If you need to fix spaces before commas and periods specifically, use the Find & Replace tool with a targeted pattern.
Yes. The "collapse multiple spaces" option treats tabs as whitespace and collapses any run of spaces and/or tabs into a single space. The "trim per line" option also strips leading tabs from each line. If you specifically need to preserve tab characters (e.g., TSV data), uncheck those options.