Remove Extra Spaces Online

How to remove extra spaces

1. Paste your text into the Your text box.
2. The most common fixes are already on: double spaces, spaces at the start and end of lines, tabs and invisible spaces.
3. Tick Remove empty lines, Remove spaces before punctuation or Remove all spaces if you need them.
4. Click Copy result and paste the clean text where you need it.

What each option does

• Turn double spaces into one: Hello····world becomes Hello world. The most common problem in copied text.
• Remove spaces at the start and end of lines: removes the indents and trailing spaces you can't see but that break alignment and forms.
• Turn tabs into spaces: text from spreadsheets and code often uses tabs. They become normal spaces.
• Fix invisible spaces: Word, Excel and websites often use non-breaking spaces that look normal but aren't. They stop formulas, searches and form checks from working. This option turns them into real spaces and deletes zero-width spaces.
• Remove empty lines: deletes blank lines, so every line has text on it.
• Remove spaces before punctuation: Hello , world ! becomes Hello, world!, and ( note ) becomes (note).
• Remove all spaces: for codes, phone numbers and IDs: AB 12 34 becomes AB1234. Line breaks are kept.

Examples

In this table, · stands for one space so you can see them.

Remove extra spaces in Word, Excel and Google Docs

• Excel and Google Sheets: =TRIM(A1) removes extra spaces, but Excel's TRIM does not remove non-breaking spaces. Use =TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(160)," ")) in Excel, or paste the column here.
• Word: press Ctrl + H, tick Use wildcards, type ( ){2,} in Find and \1 in Replace, then click Replace All.
• Google Docs: open Edit → Find and replace, tick Match using regular expressions, type {2,} in Find and a single space in Replace.

More text clean-up tools

Text from a PDF with broken lines? Remove line breaks first. Need to swap words or symbols? Use Find & Replace. Check the final length with the word counter, or fix capitals with the case converter.