Guides

Short, practical how-tos for the problems these tools solve.

• How to remove line breaks from text copied from a PDFWhy PDF text pastes with a break on every line, and how to join it back into clean paragraphs, fix split words and drop stray page numbers.
• How to clean up text pasted from Word, web pages and chat appsA short checklist for fixing curly quotes, hidden characters, stray HTML, extra spaces and blank lines when text pastes badly between apps.
• How to compare two versions of a text and see what changedCompare two drafts line by line or word by word, ignore formatting noise, and read the result. Includes tips for lists and wrapped text.