Remove Extra Spaces
Remove extra spaces from your text instantly with this free online space remover.
Use the tool below to clean double spaces, tabs, unnecessary spacing and spaces before punctuation in seconds.
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What is an Extra Space Remover?
An extra space remover is a simple online text tool that cleans unnecessary spaces from your text. It can remove double spaces, repeated spaces, tabs, spaces at the beginning or end of lines and spaces before punctuation.
This is useful when text has been copied from websites, PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, emails or other sources and contains messy formatting.
Instead of fixing spacing manually, you can paste your text into the tool and instantly generate a cleaner version.
What can you use it for?
You can use this tool to clean paragraphs, lists, notes, articles, emails, product descriptions, copied content, text exports, scripts and documents.
The tool is especially useful when you want to prepare text before publishing, pasting it into another editor, sending it by email or using it in a document, spreadsheet or CMS.
How to use the Remove Extra Spaces tool
Step 1: Paste your text
Copy and paste your text into the input box. The tool will detect unnecessary spacing, tabs and repeated spaces.
Step 2: Choose your options
You can choose whether to replace multiple spaces with one space, replace tabs, trim lines, remove spaces before punctuation and preserve line breaks.
Step 3: Remove extra spaces
Click the remove button to generate a cleaned version of your text. Then copy or download the result.
Common use cases
For writers
Writers can use this tool to clean drafts, copied text, paragraphs, notes and documents with inconsistent spacing.
For students
Students can clean essays, assignments, notes and copied references before submitting or saving their work.
For editors
Editors can use the tool to quickly remove double spaces, tabs and unnecessary spacing from text before proofreading.
For SEO and content creators
SEO specialists and content creators can clean blog posts, product descriptions, landing page copy, metadata drafts and copied content before publishing.
For developers and data cleanup
Developers and data users can clean simple text exports, copied values, logs, configuration snippets and line-based content with unwanted spacing.
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Is this Extra Space Remover free?
Yes. This extra space remover is completely free to use.
Is my text stored?
No. Your text is processed directly in your browser. It is not uploaded, saved or stored.
Can it remove double spaces?
Yes. The tool can replace multiple spaces with a single space.
Can it remove tabs?
Yes. You can enable the option to replace tabs with spaces.
Can it trim spaces at the beginning and end of lines?
Yes. You can trim leading and trailing spaces from each line.
Can it preserve line breaks?
Yes. You can preserve line breaks while cleaning spaces, or disable that option to convert the text into a more compact format.
Can I download the result?
Yes. You can download the cleaned text as a TXT file directly from the tool.
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