Remove Extra Spaces

Paste or type your text into the input area.

Select one of the five cleanup modes.

Choose a tab width of 2, 4, or 8 spaces if the selected mode uses tab conversion.

Set whether line breaks should be preserved when the selected mode offers that option.

Review the cleaned output and compare the whitespace counts.

Copy the result or download it as a TXT file.

You can load an example to test the different modes or clear the text to start again.

Clean up text by removing extra spaces, tabs, and blank lines with this free online tool. Choose one of five cleanup modes, adjust tab expansion where applicable, and decide whether line breaks should be preserved. Compare whitespace counts before and after, then copy or download the cleaned text as a TXT file.

This tool is useful for cleaning copied text, preparing lists, fixing inconsistent spacing, and making pasted content easier to read.

Unnecessary whitespace can make text harder to read and create problems when you paste information into another application. Repeated spaces, tabs, and empty lines may also affect how text is displayed or processed.

Common situations include:

Copied text: Remove irregular spacing introduced when copying from websites, documents, or emails.

Lists and data: Make line-based entries more consistent before importing or processing them.

Documents: Remove unnecessary blank lines and tidy up paragraph spacing.

Text formatting: Convert tabs into spaces when a consistent indentation style is needed.

Compact text: Remove whitespace when preparing text for a format or workflow that requires it.

Select the cleanup mode that matches your task. Each mode handles whitespace differently.

1. Collapse repeated whitespace

Replace consecutive whitespace characters with a single space. This helps clean up text containing repeated spaces, tabs, or other whitespace.

For example:

Input:

Hello world

This is a test.

Output:

Hello world This is a test.

You can choose whether line breaks are preserved. When they are preserved, cleanup is applied within each line rather than joining separate lines together.

2. Trim each line

Remove whitespace from the beginning and end of every line.

For example:

Input:

Apple

Banana

Orange

Output:

Apple

Banana

Orange

This mode does not remove spaces between words or collapse repeated internal spaces. It only cleans the edges of each line.

3. Convert tabs to spaces

Replace tab characters with spaces. Choose a tab width of:

2 spaces

4 spaces

8 spaces

For example, with a tab width of 4 spaces:

Name Price

Apple 2.50

The tab characters are replaced with spaces according to the selected width. This can make indentation and columns more consistent when moving text between applications.

Tab expansion does not necessarily create perfectly aligned columns in every font or editor. Display alignment depends on the destination application and its formatting.

4. Remove blank lines

Delete empty lines from the text while keeping the non-empty lines.

For example:

Input:

Apple

Banana

Orange

Output:

Apple

Banana

Orange

You can choose whether line breaks are preserved. When preserved, the remaining entries stay on separate lines. When not preserved, the remaining text can be joined together according to the tool's output behavior.

5. Remove all whitespace

Remove whitespace characters from the text, including spaces, tabs, and line breaks.

For example:

Input:

Hello world

Toolbox Shelf

Output:

HelloworldToolboxShelf

You can choose whether line breaks are preserved. If they are not preserved, line breaks are removed along with other whitespace. If they are preserved, line breaks remain while other whitespace is removed.

This mode is useful when a format requires text without whitespace, but it can also join words together. Review the result before using it.

Some cleanup modes can change the spaces between words without changing the structure of the text.

When line breaks are preserved, separate lines remain separate. When they are not preserved, line breaks may be removed or treated as whitespace, depending on the selected mode.

This distinction matters when cleaning lists, paragraphs, code snippets, or data that depends on its original line structure.

A tab character is not always displayed as the same number of spaces. Its visual width depends on the application and its tab-stop settings.

The tab conversion option lets you replace each tab with a chosen number of spaces:

Choose the width that matches the formatting you need. Four spaces are a common choice for indentation, while two or eight may be appropriate for other layouts.

The tool reports whitespace counts for the original text and the cleaned result. Comparing these values helps you see how much whitespace was changed or removed.

Use the counts to check whether the selected cleanup mode produced the expected result. The exact count depends on which whitespace characters the tool includes in its calculation.

Suppose you copy this list from another document:

Apples 10

Bananas 15

Oranges 8

Using Trim each line removes the extra spaces at the beginning and end of each line, but leaves the spacing between words and the blank lines unchanged.

Using Remove blank lines removes the empty lines but does not necessarily change the spaces around the entries.

Choose the mode based on the problem you want to fix. One cleanup mode does not automatically perform every type of whitespace correction.