How to remove line breaks
- Paste your text into the top box.
- Pick how you want line breaks handled. Keep paragraphs works best for most copied text.
- The cleaned text appears in the result box. Copy it and you are done.
Which option should I choose?
- Keep paragraphs joins the lines inside each paragraph but leaves the empty line between paragraphs. Use this for articles, reports and anything with more than one paragraph.
- Remove all, replace with spaces turns everything into one long block of text. Good for pasting into a single line form field or a spreadsheet cell.
- Remove all, no spaces deletes line breaks completely. Useful for long codes, keys or strings of numbers that were wrapped onto several lines.
Example
Text copied from a PDF often looks like this:
The results show a clear improvement in overall customer satisfaction. Next year we plan to expand the program.
With "Keep paragraphs" you get:
The results show a clear improvement in overall customer satisfaction. Next year we plan to expand the program.
Where this comes in handy
Besides PDFs, you will run into hard line breaks in plain text emails (which often wrap at 72 characters), text copied from old websites, subtitles, OCR scans and poems or quotes you want to fit into one line. Students use it a lot when quoting from journal articles, since academic PDFs are some of the worst offenders.