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Text CleanerBuild a reusable cleanup pipeline for untidy text and lists.Remove Duplicate LinesDeduplicate lines while controlling case, whitespace, order, and blanks.Remove Empty LinesDelete blank rows or collapse them while preserving paragraph structure.Trim WhitespaceRemove unwanted leading or trailing whitespace with indentation control.Remove Extra SpacesNormalize repeated spaces, tabs, and non-breaking spaces safely.Sort LinesSort text alphabetically, naturally, numerically, or by length.Add Prefix and SuffixWrap, number, or punctuate every line with practical presets.Delimiter ConverterConvert lists between lines, commas, tabs, pipes, and custom separators.Compare Two ListsFind unique, shared, and duplicated items across two lists.Find and ReplaceReplace plain text or guarded regular-expression matches.

Text cleanup

Remove Extra Spaces

Make irregular spacing consistent without turning your document into one long line.

Processed locally in your browser. Your data is never uploaded or stored.
Processed locally in your browser. Your data is never uploaded or stored.

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OptionsAdjust how this tool processes your text
Remove Extra Spaces options
Press Ctrl/Cmd + Enter to process

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What this tool does

A focused tool for a specific cleanup job

This tool normalizes horizontal whitespace within each line. Separate controls handle repeated spaces, tabs, non-breaking spaces, indentation, and whether line breaks remain.

Common use cases

  • Clean product descriptions pasted from rich text
  • Normalize tab-separated notes
  • Fix invisible non-breaking spaces from websites
  • Prepare text for reliable matching

How to use Remove Extra Spaces

  1. Paste text with inconsistent horizontal spacing.
  2. Choose which whitespace types to normalize.
  3. Preserve indentation if the left margin is meaningful.
  4. Copy the consistently spaced result.

Options explained

  • 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.

Example

Before
One   two
Three		four
After
One two
Three four

Edge cases and limitations

  • 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.

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.