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Remove Blank Lines

Strip out empty lines from your text.

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This tool removes blank lines from your text, closing up the gaps so your content is tight and tidy. It is ideal for cleaning text copied from PDFs, emails and web pages, which often arrives riddled with empty lines.

How to use the blank line remover

  1. Paste the text with unwanted empty lines.
  2. Every blank line is stripped out, keeping your real content in order.
  3. Copy the tidied result.

Why text gets stray blank lines

Copying from a PDF, email client or formatted web page frequently inserts an empty line after each paragraph, or even after every visual line. Double-spaced exports and pasted spreadsheet cells add more. This tool removes them all at once so you do not have to press delete dozens of times.

Blank lines vs. whitespace

This tool targets empty lines. To also collapse extra spaces and tabs within lines, run the result through Trim Whitespace. To merge everything onto one line, use Remove Line Breaks instead.

Frequently asked questions

Does it remove lines with only spaces?

Yes. Lines that contain only spaces or tabs are treated as blank and removed along with truly empty lines.

Does it keep my paragraph text in order?

Yes. Only empty lines are removed; every line with content stays exactly where it was.

What if I want single blank lines between paragraphs kept?

This tool removes all blank lines. If you need to keep paragraph spacing, remove duplicates of blank lines manually or paste paragraph by paragraph.

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