Does this remove all spaces or just extra ones?

Only extra spaces are removed. A single space between words is preserved. The result always has at most one space between any two words on a line.

Are tabs treated as spaces?

Tabs within lines are collapsed along with spaces. The tool normalizes all horizontal whitespace characters.

Text Formatting Tool

Strip multiple spaces, leading/trailing whitespace from text.

Any run of two or more spaces is reduced to a single space.

Leading and trailing spaces on every line are removed individually.

Single spaces between words are untouched.

Newlines and paragraph structure are preserved — only horizontal whitespace is normalized.

1
Paste your text
Copy text from a PDF, spreadsheet, or any source with whitespace issues.
2
See clean output
All extra spaces are removed instantly in the output panel.
3
Copy cleaned text
Copy the normalized text and use it in your application or document.

Multiple spaces

Input

hello world foo

Output

hello world foo

Leading/trailing spaces

Input

padded text

Output

padded text

: Only extra spaces are removed. A single space between words is preserved. The result always has at most one space between any two words on a line.
: Tabs within lines are collapsed along with spaces. The tool normalizes all horizontal whitespace characters.