This tool trims whitespace from your text — collapsing runs of spaces into one and removing leading and trailing spaces on every line. It is the quickest way to clean up text pasted from other apps, spreadsheets and code.
How to use the whitespace trimmer
- Paste the text with messy spacing.
- Each line is trimmed and internal double spaces are collapsed to one.
- Copy the clean, consistently spaced result.
Why extra whitespace matters
Double spaces, stray tabs and trailing spaces are invisible on screen but cause real problems: they break exact-match lookups, throw off code and data imports, misalign columns, and create odd gaps when text is reflowed. Normalising spacing removes a whole class of “why doesn’t this match?” bugs.
What it does and does not touch
It collapses multiple spaces into a single space and strips spaces at the start and end of each line. It keeps your line breaks, so paragraphs stay separate. To remove empty lines as well, use Remove Blank Lines; to join everything onto one line, use Remove Line Breaks.