Remove Extra Spaces
Clean up messy text by collapsing repeated spaces, converting tabs and trimming every line. Free, instant and private — your text is cleaned right in your browser and never uploaded.
How to use the Remove Extra Spaces tool
- Paste your text. Drop the text with untidy spacing — double spaces, stray tabs or trailing whitespace — into the box above.
- Pick your cleaning options. Choose whether to collapse repeated spaces, convert tabs, trim each line and remove blank lines. The result updates instantly as you toggle each option.
- Copy or download. Grab the cleaned text with the copy button, or download it as a
.txtfile.
About this tool
Extra spaces sneak into text from copy-and-paste, PDF extraction, spreadsheet exports and inconsistent typing habits. This free space remover collapses runs of two or more spaces into a single space, turns tabs into spaces, and trims the whitespace hanging off the start and end of every line. It is ideal for tidying up pasted content before you drop it into a CMS, an email, code comments or a document where clean, single-spaced text matters.
You stay in control of exactly what changes: leave blank lines untouched, collapse long gaps between paragraphs into a single break, or strip empty lines entirely. All processing happens locally in your browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded, stored or logged — even confidential notes and unpublished writing stay completely private on your device.
Frequently asked questions
Does this remove all spaces or just the extra ones?
By default it removes only the extra spaces: runs of two or more spaces become a single space, and leading and trailing whitespace on each line is trimmed. Normal single spaces between words are kept so the text stays readable.
Will it keep my paragraphs and line breaks?
Yes. Line breaks are preserved unless you tick “Remove blank lines”. If you only want to tighten up big gaps, use “Collapse multiple blank lines into one” to keep a single blank line between paragraphs.
What happens to tabs?
With “Convert tabs to a single space” enabled, each tab becomes one space, which then gets collapsed along with other repeated spaces. Turn the option off if you need to keep tab characters intact, for example in indented code.
Is my text sent to a server?
No. The entire clean-up runs in your browser using JavaScript. Your text never leaves your device, so the tool works offline once loaded and is safe for private or sensitive content.