How to Fix Messy Spacing in Pasted Text
Text copied from documents and web pages often arrives with doubled spaces and stray tabs. This guide explains how collapsing whitespace tidies it up in seconds.
What is the Remove Extra Spaces?
Remove Extra Spaces cleans up messy spacing in pasted text. It turns every run of spaces, tabs, and line breaks into a single space and trims the ends, which makes copied content look tidy and consistent.
How to use it
- Paste your messy text into the box.
- Click Clean Up.
- Copy the tidied text.
Worked example
For 'Hello world with extra spaces', the output is 'Hello world with extra spaces'.
Why does pasted text have extra spaces?
Formatting from the original document, such as indentation and column alignment, is often carried over as extra spaces when you copy. Collapsing each run of whitespace to a single space removes that leftover formatting without touching the words.
Frequently asked questions
Will it remove line breaks too?
Yes. Line breaks and tabs count as whitespace here, so they are collapsed into single spaces along with repeated spaces.
Does it change the words themselves?
No. Only the spacing changes; every word stays exactly as typed.