Why does copied text have so many line breaks?
When you copy text from a PDF, a printed-to-screen email, or a column in a spreadsheet, each visual line often comes with its own hard line break. Paste that into a document and you get a ragged block with a newline after every few words. This tool fixes it: Remove line breaks replaces every newline with a single space, joining the fragments back into a flowing paragraph and tidying up any double spaces left behind.
Two cleanup modes
| Mode | What it removes |
|---|---|
| Remove line breaks | All newlines, joining lines into one paragraph and collapsing the resulting double spaces. |
| Remove extra spaces | Runs of two or more spaces or tabs (and stray spaces around line breaks), keeping single spacing. |
How to use it
- Choose Remove line breaks (default) or Remove extra spaces.
- Paste your messy text into the box.
- The cleaned-up version appears instantly — click Copy result to reuse it.
Common uses include pasting quotes into essays, cleaning OCR output, preparing text for a single-line form field, and tidying data before importing it into a spreadsheet.
FAQ
- Does it remove paragraph breaks too?
- The line-break mode collapses all newlines into spaces, so separate paragraphs are merged. If you want to keep paragraph spacing, use the extra-spaces mode instead, which leaves newlines intact.
- Will it delete my punctuation?
- No. Only whitespace (spaces, tabs and newlines) is affected. Letters, numbers and punctuation are preserved.
- Is anything uploaded?
- No. All processing happens locally in your browser.