Remove Extra Spaces
Remove double spaces, extra whitespace and leading or trailing spaces on each line instantly. Convert tabs and drop empty lines.
What does the remove extra spaces tool do?
The remove extra spaces tool goes through your text and reduces every group of two or more consecutive spaces to a single one. It is the fastest way to normalise a text when you paste it from several sources and irregular spaces appear between words, after periods or at the start of paragraphs.
Besides collapsing the extra spaces, you can trim the start and end of each line, convert tabs to spaces, strip the whitespace of empty lines and remove invisible characters that sneak in when copying from the web. Each option is independent, so you combine only the cleanup you need.
To join the text into a paragraph or clean repeated lines, try remove line breaks or remove duplicate lines.
When should you remove extra spaces?
Documents and essays
Pasting text from several sources leaves double spaces. This tool normalises them for a uniform format in Word or Google Docs.
SEO and web content
Extra spaces clutter titles, meta descriptions and URLs. Clean them before publishing for spotless code and copy.
Clean data
Trim leading and trailing spaces on each line in lists, CSV or exports before importing them into another app.
Fix typing
Double spaces after a period or accidental spaces are removed in one go, without proofreading the text by hand.
What each cleanup option does
Collapse double spaces
Reduces any sequence of two or more spaces or tabs to a single space, keeping one normal space between words.
Trim start and end of line
Removes spaces and tabs at the beginning and end of each line, without altering the internal spaces.
Convert tabs and remove empty lines
Turns tabs into spaces and discards lines that become empty, ideal for lists and data.
Invisible characters and remove all spaces
The first strips hidden zero-width characters; the second leaves the text completely without spaces, useful for identifiers.