Text copied from a webpage, email, or document can arrive with extra spaces, tab characters, and oversized gaps between paragraphs. Remove Extra Spaces applies a consistent plain-text cleanup. It is useful for prose and simple lists, provided that spacing is not carrying structural meaning.
Understand the cleanup rules
Paste the text and select Process text. Inside each line, runs of whitespace other than line endings become one ordinary space. Leading and trailing whitespace on each line is trimmed. Three or more consecutive newline characters are reduced to two, leaving a single blank line between paragraphs.
The final result is also trimmed at its outer edges. Ordinary line breaks inside the document remain, so a line-based list does not become one long sentence. However, indentation and aligned columns are removed because their spaces and tabs are treated as accidental spacing.
Before processing, decide whether those rules fit the content. Poetry, source code, tab-separated records, and carefully aligned tables can rely on the exact spacing that this tool changes. Keep such material in a format-aware editor unless you intentionally want a plain version.
Follow a visible example
Suppose the first line contains two leading spaces, first, three spaces, line, and two trailing spaces. After three newline characters, a second line contains second, a tab, and line, followed by a space.
The cleaned result is first line, one blank line, then second line. Repeated internal spacing becomes one space, both lines lose their outer padding, and the oversized paragraph gap becomes a single blank line.
The wording and letter case remain the same. A single newline between two nonempty lines also remains a newline. This distinction is helpful for addresses or item lists, but it means the tool does not automatically repair every awkward line wrap copied from a narrow column.
Review before replacing the source
Compare the result with the original in context. If a copied document used tabs to separate fields, collapsing them may make the values harder to distinguish. Similarly, removing indentation can obscure the hierarchy of a nested list even though all its words remain present.
Processing takes place in your browser. Copy the result only after checking that no meaningful layout depended on the changed whitespace. The operation does not edit a file in another application or recover rich-text styling. Use Text Difference Checker to inspect changed lines. If accidental spaces were preventing repeated entries from matching, follow the cleanup with Remove Duplicate Lines, using a retained original for comparison.