Remove Extra Spaces is a free tool that fixes messy spacing in text: double spaces between words, spaces at the start and end of lines, repeated blank lines, and invisible characters such as non-breaking and zero-width spaces. It runs in your browser, so your text stays private.
How to clean up spacing
- Paste your text into the left box.
- The cleaned text appears on the right, with the number of fixes made.
- Turn individual fixes on or off, then copy the result.
What gets fixed
- Repeated spaces between words become a single space, and tabs become spaces.
- Spaces at line ends are removed.
- Repeated blank lines are reduced to one, so paragraphs stay separated.
- Invisible characters: non-breaking spaces become normal spaces, and zero-width spaces and byte-order marks are removed.
Why invisible characters matter
Text copied from websites, Word documents, PDFs and chat apps often contains characters you can’t see. They make two identical-looking entries count as different, stop searches from matching, break formulas in spreadsheets and cause errors in code. Cleaning them out first saves a lot of confusion.
Next steps: remove duplicate lines,change the case, or count the words.
Frequently asked questions
Why does text copied from a PDF have odd spacing?
PDFs position words on a page rather than storing sentences, so copying often produces double spaces, line breaks mid-sentence and non-breaking spaces.
What are invisible characters?
Zero-width spaces and non-breaking spaces look like nothing or like a normal space, but break search, sorting, spreadsheets and code. This tool replaces them with normal spaces or removes them.
Will it change my paragraphs?
Paragraphs are kept. Only repeated blank lines are reduced to one, and you can turn that off.
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