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Remove extra spaces

Collapse repeated spaces and trim each line to clean up messy text.

Related tools

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Remove repeated charactersCollapse runs of the same character into one (helllo → helo).Remove accentsStrip accents and diacritics from text, turning é into e and ü into u.Remove blank linesDelete all empty or whitespace-only lines from your text.Remove duplicate linesDelete repeated lines while keeping the original order of the first occurrences.Remove duplicate wordsKeep only the first occurrence of each word in your text.Remove emojisStrip all emojis and pictographs from your text.Remove line breaksStrip or replace line breaks to turn multi-line text into one line.Remove line numbersStrip leading line numbers (1. 2) 3:) from every line.

Remove extra spaces works straight from this page — free, instant, nothing to install. You will find it under Transform & clean, with Remove repeated characters and Remove accents for the neighbouring cases.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What does Remove extra spaces do?

Collapse repeated spaces and trim each line to clean up messy text.

When would I actually use this?

Cleaning up a paste before it goes anywhere: stripping duplicates from a list, normalising case, removing accents for a filename, or sorting lines.

What is the most common mistake?

Sorting text as if it were ASCII. Accented letters land after Z in a byte sort, which puts "Zurich" before "Émile" and produces a list no reader will accept.

How is Remove extra spaces different from Remove repeated characters?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: Remove repeated characters is the one to open when you need it to collapse runs of the same character into one (helllo → helo). Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

Remove accents is the closest one after this: Strip accents and diacritics from text, turning é into e and ü into u.

What else is worth having open alongside it?

Remove blank lines and Remove duplicate lines — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Where do the figures come from?

Transformations use the browser's Unicode-aware string handling, so case changes and sorting respect the locale rather than byte order. Nothing is truncated: what comes out is the whole of what went in.

Further reading

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How-toCleaning Messy Text: The Order of Operations That Actually MattersStrip tags before decoding entities, trim before deduplicating, collapse whitespace last. Three orderings run in Node, a nine-step pipeline in the right sequence, and the invisible characters — U+00A0, U+200B, U+FEFF — that survive every naive cleanup.ExplainerSentence Case and Title Case: The Rules Differ by LanguageEnglish title case has three different cutoffs depending on the style guide. French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian have none at all. German capitalises every noun. The tool knows about none of this — here is exactly what it does.GuideStripping HTML Safely: What a Tag Remover Can and Cannot DoRemoving tags and sanitising HTML are two different jobs. One real fragment run through a naive regex and through a formatting-aware stripper, with script and style contents, block breaks, comments, CDATA and entity order all shown as output.ExplainerDetecting the Language of a Text, and Why Short Texts FailMeasured, not asserted: 90 short real phrases across six languages, none declined and 68 right — 76%, falling to 64% under sixteen letters. Four of the wrong answers came back at 100% confidence.How-toNumbering the Lines of a Text for a Review with Several PeopleNumbering starts at 1 and cannot be set to 0, the alignment is spaces rather than zeros, and the remover undoes eight of the eleven separators without touching the indentation. What it still cannot do is tell your numbers from its own.How-toFiltering Lines by a Pattern Without a Command LineThis is grep for people who do not use grep, with one important difference: the match is a plain substring, so a real regular expression returns an empty box and no error. Every claim here was checked by running the tool.