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Remove Extra Spaces

Clean up multiple spaces and stray whitespace from your text without merging words or breaking your line structure — entirely in your browser.

Remove Extra Spaces Tool

Clean Up Whitespace

Your text is processed locally in your browser and is not uploaded by this tool.

How to Use This Tool

  1. Paste your text into the box on the left.
  2. Choose which cleanup options to apply — "Remove multiple spaces" is on by default.
  3. Click Clean Text. Your paragraph and line structure is preserved unless you turn on additional options.
  4. Copy the result, or adjust the options and clean again.

Example

With just "Remove multiple spaces" enabled, the input Hello world! becomes:

Hello world!

Every run of spaces collapses to exactly one — never to zero, so words are never accidentally merged together.

What Each Option Does

  • Remove multiple spaces: collapses any run of spaces or tabs within a line down to a single space.
  • Trim spaces from start/end of lines: removes leading or trailing spaces and tabs on every line, without touching spaces in the middle.
  • Normalize excessive blank lines: collapses a run of several consecutive blank lines down to exactly one — a lighter touch than the dedicated Remove Blank Lines tool, which can remove all blank lines entirely if that's what you need.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will this merge words together?

No. Collapsing multiple spaces always leaves exactly one space behind — it never removes a space down to nothing, so "cat dog" becomes "cat dog", never "catdog".

Does this change my line breaks or paragraph structure?

Not by default. Collapsing spaces and trimming line edges both operate within each line individually, never merging separate lines together. Only "Normalize excessive whitespace" touches blank lines, and only to collapse a run of several down to one.

What's the difference between this and Remove Blank Lines?

This tool is about spaces and tabs within and around each line. The "Normalize excessive whitespace" option here only lightly collapses extra blank lines; for full control over blank lines — including removing all of them or preserving exactly one between paragraphs — use the dedicated Remove Blank Lines tool instead.

Does this remove tabs?

Tabs are treated the same as spaces by the space-collapsing and trim options — a run of tabs and spaces together collapses to a single space, and tabs at the start/end of a line are trimmed along with spaces.

What happens with empty input?

The result is simply empty — no error, nothing to clean.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. Every cleanup step happens locally in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing you type here is sent to Brekzy or stored anywhere.

Is this tool free to use?

Yes, completely free, with no account, sign-up, or usage limit.

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