Remove Extra Spaces Online
Clean up messy text by trimming leading and trailing spaces and collapsing multiple consecutive spaces into a single space. Results update instantly.
About Remove Extra Spaces
When you copy text from PDFs, web pages or word processors, it often comes with extra whitespace — multiple spaces between words, leading spaces before paragraphs, or trailing spaces at line endings. This tool cleans all of that up in one click.
Options let you choose exactly what to clean: trim leading/trailing spaces, collapse multiple consecutive spaces into one, remove extra blank lines, or convert tab characters to single spaces.
How to Remove Extra Spaces
Paste Your Text
Paste any text with unwanted whitespace into the input field.
Select Cleanup Options
Check which types of whitespace you want removed or collapsed.
View Result
The cleaned text appears in real time in the output field.
Copy Output
Click "Copy Output" to copy the cleaned text to your clipboard.
Frequently Asked Questions
It replaces any sequence of two or more consecutive space characters with a single space. For example, "hello world" becomes "hello world".
The "Collapse extra blank lines" option only removes consecutive blank lines (empty lines), reducing multiple blank lines to a single blank line between paragraphs. Single newlines separating lines are preserved.
Yes, this tool works great for trimming spaces from CSV values. Paste the CSV, enable "Trim leading/trailing spaces" and "Collapse multiple spaces", and copy the cleaned output.
Currently the tool handles regular space characters and tabs. Non-breaking spaces (U+00A0) copied from HTML or Word documents are also collapsed by the "Collapse multiple spaces" option.