Remove Extra Spaces From Text

Any run of two or more spaces or tabs is treated as extra. Collapsing turns each run into a single space, so words stay separated but the doubled-up gaps disappear. A single space between words is left untouched.

Yes. Tabs are treated as whitespace throughout. Collapsing replaces a mixed run of spaces and tabs with one space, and Trim each line strips both spaces and tabs from the two ends of every line.

Remove blank lines deletes every empty line so the text has no gaps at all. Collapse blank lines keeps paragraph breaks but shrinks any stack of three or more newlines down to a single blank line. The two are mutually exclusive, so turning on Remove blank lines disables the collapse option.

Line endings are normalized to a single style first, then spaces collapse, then each line is trimmed, then blank lines are removed if chosen, and finally blank lines are collapsed. That fixed order means trimming happens after collapsing, so a line of only spaces becomes truly empty and can then be dropped.

Yes. Line breaks stay in place unless you choose to remove or collapse blank lines. Only the whitespace inside and around each line is changed, so your paragraph structure survives by default.

Yes. Windows CRLF and classic Mac CR endings are converted to Unix LF before anything else runs, so the output uses one consistent newline style no matter which system produced the text.

No. Only whitespace is touched. Every letter, digit, symbol, and the order of your words stays exactly as pasted, which makes the tool safe to run on code, addresses, or data you cannot afford to alter.

This tool cleans spacing while preserving your lines and paragraphs. If you instead want to flatten everything onto a single line, a remove line breaks tool replaces the newlines themselves rather than tidying the spaces around them.

Everything runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded and your text never leaves your device. There is no fixed length cap; the practical limit is your device's memory, and the character counters above each box update as you paste.