Remove Extra Spaces
Strip repeated spaces, trailing whitespace and empty lines from text you have pasted from emails, PDFs or spreadsheets.
Characters removed
14
Lines
3
Cleaned text
This line has extra spaces. And too many blank lines above.
How this was worked out
- How it worksRuns of spaces and tabs collapse to one space, then blank lines are normalised.
Formula
Repeated whitespace runs are collapsed to a single space before blank-line handling.
Frequently asked questions
No — unless you choose to remove all blank lines, single blank lines between paragraphs are preserved.
It handles regular spaces and tabs. Non-breaking spaces are preserved as meaningful characters.
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