“Remove Extra Spaces” is a simple but powerful text-cleaning utility designed for anyone who works with messy text copied from websites, PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, WhatsApp chats, email threads, or exported reports. Many times the content looks normal on screen but contains hidden formatting characters that create unexpected gaps, broken alignment, or strange search results. This tool helps you clean that noise in a fast and predictable way. It can collapse repeated spaces and tabs, fix inconsistent newlines, remove invisible Unicode whitespace, remove NBSP (non-breaking spaces), and also remove hidden zero-width characters and BOM markers. Everything runs locally in your browser, so your text stays private and never needs to be uploaded to a server.
You can choose from multiple cleaning modes depending on your workflow. If you want to keep your original paragraph layout, “Single space (preserve line breaks)” will compress extra spaces inside each line without destroying line breaks. If you need a single continuous line (for example, for database input, slugging, or a strict form field), “Single space (make one line)” turns all whitespace into a single, clean space. “Trim each line” is helpful when you receive copied tables where every line has accidental leading/trailing spaces. “Normalize whitespace” is the best all-round option: it trims lines, collapses runs of spaces/tabs, and also reduces multiple blank lines to a single blank line — making the result clean, readable, and consistent. Finally, “Remove blank lines only” is useful for quickly removing empty lines while keeping the rest of the spacing unchanged.
The NBSP/Unicode option removes special spaces that come from copy/paste. These include NBSP (U+00A0), thin spaces, en/em spaces, figure spaces, and other Unicode whitespace forms. They can break alignment in editors and cause searches to fail because the character is not a normal space. The zero-width option removes characters like U+200B (zero-width space) and U+FEFF (byte-order mark). These are invisible but can break matching, sorting, and comparisons — especially in code, spreadsheets, or when you are debugging data.
Common real-world uses include: cleaning product lists before pasting into Excel or Google Sheets, fixing text copied from PDFs that contains strange spacing, preparing subtitles or scripts, cleaning server logs, normalizing address lists, removing messy whitespace from HTML content, or preparing text for SEO descriptions where extra spaces can look unprofessional. You can instantly copy the cleaned output with one click, or download it as a plain .txt file for later use. For speed, you can also press Ctrl/Cmd + Enter to run the cleaning without clicking any buttons.
Privacy note: This tool performs processing inside your browser tab. No login is needed, and your input is not stored in EasyTools databases. If you refresh the page, your text remains only in your current session (unless your browser decides to cache form state). For sensitive text, you can use a private window. This is ideal for users who want quick cleanup without sharing documents with external services.
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