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Remove Extra Spaces

Tidy messy spacing by collapsing repeated spaces and stacked blank lines. Single line breaks and paragraph gaps stay where they are.

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Quick answer

Paste text and the tool tidies its spacing. It collapses repeated spaces and tabs into a single space, removes spaces around line breaks, and limits blank lines so paragraphs are separated by just one. Single line breaks and the paragraph structure stay, so your text gets cleaner without being squashed into one block. The cleanup happens in your browser and the text isn't uploaded.

What the Remove Extra Spaces does

Text copied between apps or documents often picks up messy spacing: double spaces, stray tabs, spaces hanging at the ends of lines, and stacks of blank lines. This tool clears that up and leaves evenly spaced, readable text.

After a pass, words are separated by single spaces and paragraphs by single blank lines. The wording doesn't change, and the text isn't merged into one block.

How it works

The tool makes a few cleanup passes over your text. It replaces any run of spaces and tabs with a single space, strips spaces sitting just before or after a line break, reduces three or more blank lines to a single blank line, and trims whitespace from the very start and end.

It keeps the structure on purpose: single line breaks stay, and so does one blank line between paragraphs. The spacing becomes consistent without your lines being merged into a single paragraph.

Processing pipeline

  1. Collapse spaces and tabs. Replace any run of spaces or tabs with a single space.
  2. Trim around line breaks. Remove spaces sitting just before or after a line break.
  3. Limit blank lines. Reduce three or more consecutive blank lines to a single blank line.
  4. Trim the ends. Remove leading and trailing whitespace from the whole text.

What it cleans

runs of spaces or tabs → one space spaces around a line break → removed three or more blank lines → one blank line then trim the start and end
Worked example
hello world + several blank lines + foo bar → hello world + one blank line + foo bar

It keeps single line breaks and one blank line between paragraphs. Stripping all whitespace or joining lines together are jobs for separate tools.

Standards and references

  • Whitespace normalisation: Making irregular spacing consistent (single spaces between words, single blank lines between paragraphs) without changing the words.
  • Structure preserved: Single line breaks and one blank line between paragraphs are kept, so the text's layout survives the cleanup. The spacing gets tidied; the text isn't reflowed.
  • Different from stripping or joining: Removing all whitespace, or joining every line into one paragraph, are separate operations. This tool evens out the spacing and keeps the line and paragraph structure.

Accuracy and limits

For ordinary prose the result is what you'd expect: words separated by single spaces, no trailing spaces, and paragraphs separated by a single blank line. The wording doesn't change.

Single line breaks and one blank line between paragraphs are kept by design. If you wanted everything on one line, or every blank line gone, use a line-break remover or a whitespace remover instead.

Tabs are treated as spaces and collapsed along with them into a single space. If your text uses tabs for alignment, such as a table laid out with tabs, that alignment will be lost.

Only the whitespace around and between words changes. Punctuation, capitalisation and the words themselves come through exactly as you pasted them.

Real-world uses

Cleaning copied text

Fix double spaces and stray tabs from a paste.

Tidying a document

Even out the spacing before publishing or sharing.

Removing trailing spaces

Strip spaces hanging at the ends of lines.

Collapsing blank lines

Reduce stacks of empty lines to single gaps.

When it fits, and when it doesn't

Good for

  • Collapsing double spaces and tabs
  • Removing trailing spaces on lines
  • Reducing stacked blank lines
  • Tidying pasted text while keeping the layout

Not the best choice for

  • Joining all lines into one paragraph
  • Stripping every space and line break
  • Keeping tab-based alignment
  • Changing the words or punctuation

To join lines into a single paragraph, use a line-break remover. To strip every whitespace character, use a whitespace remover. This tool tidies the spacing and keeps the line and paragraph structure.

Frequently asked questions

What does it actually remove?
It collapses runs of spaces and tabs to a single space, strips spaces around line breaks, reduces three or more blank lines to one, and trims the start and end. The words are left unchanged.
Does it keep my paragraphs?
Yes. Single line breaks and one blank line between paragraphs are kept, so the paragraph structure stays intact. Only the spacing changes.
What is the difference from a whitespace remover?
A whitespace remover strips every space, tab and line break, leaving no gaps at all. This tool keeps single spaces and the line structure and removes only the excess.
Will it join my lines into one paragraph?
No, it keeps line breaks. To merge everything onto one line, use a line-break remover, which replaces the breaks with spaces.
What happens to tabs?
Tabs are collapsed into single spaces along with runs of spaces. If your text uses tabs to line up columns, that alignment will be lost.
Does it remove trailing spaces on each line?
Yes. Spaces just before a line break are removed, so no line ends with stray spaces. Spaces just after a break go too.
How many blank lines does it keep between paragraphs?
One. Three or more consecutive blank lines become a single blank line, so the gap between paragraphs is consistent.
Does it change my words or punctuation?
No. It only adjusts whitespace. Letters, numbers, punctuation and capitalisation come through exactly as you pasted them.
Is it safe for code?
Be careful with code. Collapsing spaces and tabs destroys indentation, which matters in languages like Python. Use a code formatter for code instead.
Can it fix double spaces after full stops?
Yes. Any run of two or more spaces becomes a single space, so the old typewriter habit of two spaces after a sentence becomes one.
Is my text uploaded?
No. The cleanup runs in your browser, so the text stays on your device and isn't sent to a server.
Why is there still a blank line in my output?
A single blank line between paragraphs is kept on purpose to preserve the structure. Only stacks of three or more blank lines are reduced, and they go down to one, not to none.

References

The tool turns runs of spaces and tabs into one space, trims spaces around line breaks and cuts stacked blank lines down to one, so the paragraphs keep their shape.

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