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Remove Line Breaks
Paste text with hard line breaks and get it back as clean running text. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Processed on your device. Nothing is uploaded or stored on a server.
How it works
- Paste the text into the box above, including the broken lines.
- Pick what should replace each line break, and decide whether to keep blank-line paragraph gaps.
- Press Copy. The cleaned text is ready to paste into Word, Docs or an email.
Example
The quarterly report shows that revenue grew by twelve percent over the previous period. Costs were flat across all regions.
The quarterly report shows that revenue grew by twelve percent over the previous period. Costs were flat across all regions.
What this tool does
Text copied from PDFs, emails and terminal windows often carries a hard line break at the end of every visual line. Those breaks are not real paragraph breaks, so the text reflows badly when you paste it elsewhere. This tool treats a single break as a soft wrap and joins the lines, while a blank line is treated as a real paragraph boundary you probably want to keep. If you are building a list instead, switch the replacement to a comma. Leading and trailing spaces on each line are trimmed so you do not get doubled spaces where lines are joined.
Common problems
Words are glued together after cleaning
Your source used a hyphen or no space at the line end. Set the replacement to a space, or fix hyphenated words afterwards with find and replace.
Paragraphs ran together
Turn on "Keep blank-line paragraph breaks". It only works when paragraphs are separated by an empty line in the original.
Questions
Does it change Windows (CRLF) and Mac line endings too?
Yes. Windows, old Mac and Unix line endings are all treated as one line break before cleaning.
Can I turn a column of items into a comma list?
Yes. Choose "a comma and space" and turn off paragraph preservation. For quotes or other separators, use the list converter.
Is my text sent anywhere?
No. The cleaning runs as JavaScript in your browser tab. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and it still works.
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Last reviewed 2026-10-14.