Text cleanup
Remove Extra Spaces
Make irregular spacing consistent without turning your document into one long line.
Processed locally. Your input and output are never uploaded.
Tool overview
Remove Extra Spaces tool overview
This tool normalizes horizontal whitespace within each line. Separate controls handle repeated spaces, tabs, non-breaking spaces, indentation, and whether line breaks remain.
Text that needs consistent horizontal spacing
- Clean product descriptions pasted from rich text
- Normalize tab-separated notes
- Fix invisible non-breaking spaces from websites
- Prepare text for reliable matching
Normalize spaces while keeping structure
- Paste text with inconsistent horizontal spacing.
- Choose which whitespace types to normalize.
- Preserve indentation if the left margin is meaningful.
- Copy the consistently spaced result.
Tabs, non-breaking spaces, and indentation
- Space collapsing converts repeated regular spaces to one.
- Tab normalization turns tabs into regular spaces before collapsing.
- NBSP normalization fixes spaces copied from HTML.
- Preserve line breaks processes every line separately.
Repair irregular spaces and tabs
Before
One two Three four
After
One two Three four
Spacing the tool intentionally preserves
- Indentation preservation applies only at the start of each line.
- Non-breaking spaces are normalized only when enabled.
- Disabling line preservation joins lines with a single space.
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Questions
Remove Extra Spaces FAQ
Will this remove paragraph breaks?
Not by default. Preserve line breaks is enabled initially.
What is a non-breaking space?
It is a space commonly copied from web pages that looks normal but uses a different Unicode character.