About Remove Extra Spaces
The Remove Extra Spaces tool eliminates unwanted spacing from your text. It collapses multiple spaces into a single space and trims leading/trailing spaces. Optionally it can replace tabs and collapse multiple consecutive blank lines for a tidy, readable output.
Example
Input:
This sentence has tabs and many spaces.
Output:
This sentence has tabs and many spaces.
How to use it
- Step 1: Paste your text into the input box above.
- Step 2: Tick Also replace tabs if you want tabs converted to single spaces.
- Step 3: Tick Also collapse multiple line breaks to remove extra blank lines.
- Step 4: Click Remove Extra Spaces and copy the cleaned text.
Who needs this?
Useful for writers, editors, students, virtual assistants, web researchers, and anyone who copies text from PDFs, word processors, or scraped web pages. After cleaning spaces, consider checking length with Word Count or running spell fixes via Find & Replace.
Why use this tool?
Cleaning spacing improves readability, prevents formatting issues when pasting into CMS or CSV files, and reduces noise for downstream processing like keyword analysis or data import.