Remove Extra Spaces
Collapse repeated spaces, tabs, and blank lines into clean, consistent whitespace.
Text copied from a PDF, a webpage, or a different word processor frequently carries along inconsistent whitespace — double spaces after periods, stray tabs mixed with spaces, or several blank lines where one would do — that's invisible while proofreading but shows up as odd, inconsistent gaps once pasted somewhere else.
This tool cleans that up in one pass: it collapses runs of spaces and tabs down to a single space, trims leading and trailing whitespace from every line, and reduces three or more consecutive blank lines down to a single blank line separator — normalizing your text's whitespace without touching the actual words or line breaks that matter.
How to use Remove Extra Spaces
- 1
Paste your text
Enter text with inconsistent or extra whitespace.
- 2
Review the cleaned result
Extra spaces, tabs, and blank lines are collapsed automatically.
- 3
Copy the cleaned text
Use the Copy button to grab the normalized text.
Features
- Collapses multiple spaces and tabs into a single space
- Trims leading and trailing whitespace on every line
- Reduces excessive blank lines to a single blank line
- Preserves intentional line breaks and paragraph structure
Frequently asked questions
Common mistakes to avoid
- Not checking whether intentional formatting (like indented code blocks) survives whitespace cleanup — this tool is meant for prose, not preformatted content.
- Assuming this tool also fixes spelling or grammar — it only normalizes whitespace, not content.
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