Text Cleanup & Formatting Tools

Fix whitespace, sort and deduplicate lines, strip unwanted characters, and generate URL slugs. All free, all instant, no signup required.

Whitespace & Line Breaks

Fix spacing issues, remove or add line breaks, convert tabs to spaces, and wrap text to a set width.

Remove Line Breaks

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Remove unwanted line breaks from text instantly. Convert multi-line text to single line or preserve paragraphs. Clean up PDF text, emails, and formatted documents with one click.

Remove unwanted line breaks from text instantly. Convert multi-line text to single line or preserve paragraphs. Clean up PDF text, emails, and formatted documents with one click.
Remove Extra Spaces

Replace multiple consecutive spaces and tabs with single spaces. Clean up text formatting by removing extra whitespace while preserving line breaks and text structure.

Replace multiple consecutive spaces and tabs with single spaces. Clean up text formatting by removing extra whitespace while preserving line breaks and text structure.
Trim Whitespace

Remove leading and trailing whitespace from text instantly. Clean spaces, tabs, and line breaks at the start and end of your entire text with one click.

Remove leading and trailing whitespace from text instantly. Clean spaces, tabs, and line breaks at the start and end of your entire text with one click.
Add Line Breaks

Add line breaks automatically at sentences, commas, spaces, or custom separators. Improve text readability and structure with one click. Perfect for creating lists and formatting text.

Add line breaks automatically at sentences, commas, spaces, or custom separators. Improve text readability and structure with one click. Perfect for creating lists and formatting text.
Normalize Whitespace

Standardize and clean up whitespace in text by converting tabs to spaces, collapsing multiple spaces, normalizing line breaks, and removing trailing spaces. Perfect for text cleanup and formatting consistency.

Standardize and clean up whitespace in text by converting tabs to spaces, collapsing multiple spaces, normalizing line breaks, and removing trailing spaces. Perfect for text cleanup and formatting consistency.
Tabs to Spaces Converter

Convert between tabs and spaces with customizable indentation settings. Perfect for code formatting, ensuring consistency across editors, and meeting coding standards.

Convert between tabs and spaces with customizable indentation settings. Perfect for code formatting, ensuring consistency across editors, and meeting coding standards.
Word Wrap Text

Wrap long lines at a specified column width with smart word boundary detection. Preserve paragraphs and optionally break long words. Perfect for formatting plain text, emails, and code comments.

Wrap long lines at a specified column width with smart word boundary detection. Preserve paragraphs and optionally break long words. Perfect for formatting plain text, emails, and code comments.

Lines & Lists

Sort, deduplicate, shuffle, reverse, and number lines. Add a prefix or suffix to every line in a list.

Strip & Remove

Remove punctuation, digits, or other unwanted characters from text in bulk.

Indentation & Formatting

Indent or outdent lines, and convert text into a clean URL-friendly slug.

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What Are Text Cleanup & Formatting Tools?

Text cleanup tools fix the formatting problems that appear when you copy text between applications — extra spaces, inconsistent line breaks, mixed indentation, duplicate entries, and stray punctuation. Rather than manually hunting through a document, these tools process any amount of text instantly in your browser, with no installation or sign-up required.

Choosing the Right Tool

For fixing copied or pasted text

Pasting from PDFs, Word documents, or web pages often introduces extra spaces and irregular line breaks. Remove Extra Spaces collapses multiple consecutive spaces down to one. Trim Whitespace strips leading and trailing spaces from every line. Normalize Whitespace handles mixed tabs and irregular spacing in one pass. Remove Line Breaks is useful when copied text arrives with a hard return on every line — common with PDFs and email threads.

For working with lists and data

The Sort Lines tool orders any list alphabetically or in reverse. Pair it with Remove Duplicate Lines to produce a clean, unique list in seconds. Remove Empty Lines clears out blank rows between entries. Add Prefix or Suffix to Lines lets you prepend or append the same text to every line at once — great for wrapping values in quotes, adding commas, or building SQL IN clauses. Number Lines adds a sequential counter to each line, useful for referencing items in a review or report.

For developers and code formatting

Tabs to Spaces Converter resolves the tabs-vs-spaces debate by converting all tab characters to a consistent number of spaces — or vice versa. Indent Lines and Outdent Lines add or remove a level of indentation from selected text blocks, handy when reformatting pasted code snippets. Word Wrap Text enforces a maximum line length, useful for README files, terminal output, or plaintext email formatting.

For SEO and web publishing

The URL Slug Generator converts any headline or title into a lowercase, hyphen-separated slug ready to use in a CMS or URL path. It handles special characters, accented letters, and multiple spaces automatically. Remove Punctuation strips commas, periods, and other symbols — useful for normalising text before further processing or feeding it into analysis tools.

All Cleanup & Formatting Tools at a Glance

Here is a quick reference for every tool in this category:

Tool	What It Does	Best For
Remove Extra Spaces	Collapses multiple spaces into one	Fixing copied text, data cleanup
Trim Whitespace	Removes leading and trailing spaces per line	Data imports, CSV cleanup
Normalize Whitespace	Standardises mixed tabs, spaces, and newlines	Documents from multiple sources
Remove Line Breaks	Joins lines into a continuous block of text	PDF text, email content
Add Line Breaks	Inserts line breaks at set intervals or after punctuation	Reformatting paragraphs
Word Wrap Text	Wraps text to a maximum line length	Terminals, plaintext email, README
Tabs to Spaces Converter	Replaces tab characters with spaces	Code formatting, consistent indentation
Sort Lines	Sorts lines alphabetically or in reverse	Lists, dictionaries, glossaries
Remove Duplicate Lines	Removes repeated lines, keeping unique entries	Deduplicating lists, data cleanup
Remove Empty Lines	Deletes all blank lines from text	Tidying exports, pasted content
Reverse Lines	Flips the order of lines top to bottom	Log files, chronological lists
Shuffle Lines	Randomises line order	Randomising quiz answers, playlists
Number Lines	Prepends a sequential number to each line	Code review, referencing items
Add Prefix or Suffix to Lines	Adds the same text before or after every line	SQL lists, batch formatting
Remove Punctuation	Strips all punctuation marks from text	NLP preprocessing, text normalisation
Remove Numbers from Text	Removes all numeric digits from text	Cleaning mixed alphanumeric data
Indent Lines	Adds a level of indentation to every line	Code blocks, markdown formatting
Outdent Lines	Removes one level of indentation from every line	Dedenting pasted code
URL Slug Generator	Converts text into a lowercase hyphenated URL slug	CMS URLs, SEO-friendly paths

Text Cleanup & Formatting Tools

Whitespace & Line Breaks

Remove Line Breaks

Remove Extra Spaces

Trim Whitespace

Add Line Breaks

Normalize Whitespace

Tabs to Spaces Converter

Word Wrap Text

Lines & Lists

Remove Duplicate Lines

Remove Empty Lines

Sort Lines

Number Lines

Add Prefix or Suffix to Lines

Reverse Lines

Shuffle Lines

Strip & Remove

Remove Punctuation from Text

Remove Numbers from Text