Double and triple spaces creep in when text is edited by several people or pasted between apps, and they break alignment and look untidy in print.
Remove Extra Spaces collapses any run of spaces or tabs back to one, without touching your line breaks.
How to use Remove Extra Spaces
- Paste text that has too many spaces between words.
- Remove Extra Spaces collapses each run of spaces or tabs down to one.
- Copy the evenly spaced text back out.
Use cases
- Cleaning double spaces left after sentences in older documents.
- Tidying a paragraph where spacing went uneven during edits.
- Fixing spacing in text pasted from a justified column.
Good to know
Remove Extra Spaces squeezes two or more spaces or tabs into a single space wherever they appear in a line. Line breaks and the structure of your text are left intact, so only the horizontal spacing changes. It is the lightest of the spacing cleanups.
Frequently asked questions
Does it change my line breaks?
No. Only repeated spaces and tabs within a line are collapsed; every line break stays exactly where it was.
Will a single space between words be affected?
No. A single space is left alone; only runs of two or more are reduced to one.
Does it remove leading indentation?
It collapses runs of spaces, so deep indentation becomes a single space; use the leading-spaces tool if you want indentation removed entirely.