Ever copied text from a PDF, email, or website, only to find it's full of strange and unwanted line breaks? Manually deleting them is a frustrating waste of time. Our free Line Break & Paragraph Remover Tool instantly cleans up your text, giving you a perfectly formatted block with just one click.

How to Use Our Line Break Remover

Cleaning your text is a simple, three-step process:

1. Paste your text into the text area above.
2. Choose the appropriate button:
   • Click "Remove ALL Line Breaks" to convert everything into one single block of text.
   • Click "Remove EXTRA Line Breaks" to preserve your paragraph breaks (double line breaks) while removing single line breaks.
3. Click the "Copy Text" button to copy the cleaned-up result to your clipboard.

Example: Cleaning Text from a PDF

Often, text copied from a PDF with columns will have a line break at the end of every line.

Before:

This is an example of text that
has been copied from a PDF file.
Each line has an unnecessary
break, making it difficult to
read and re-use.

This is a second paragraph that
also has the same formatting
problem.

After clicking "Remove EXTRA Line Breaks":

This is an example of text that has been copied from a PDF file. Each line has an unnecessary break, making it difficult to read and re-use.

This is a second paragraph that also has the same formatting problem.

Why Do Unwanted Line Breaks Occur?

Unwanted line breaks are a common formatting nuisance that usually happens when you copy text from sources that have a fixed width, like emails, websites, or especially PDF documents. These sources use "hard returns" at the end of each line to force the text to wrap within a specific column size.

When you paste this text into a different editor (like a Word document or a CMS), these hard returns are preserved, resulting in a jagged, broken block of text. Our tool fixes this using two different methods:

• Remove ALL Line Breaks: This option is aggressive. It finds every single newline character (\n) and carriage return (\r) and replaces them with a single space. It's perfect for when you want to merge everything into one continuous line or block.
• Remove EXTRA Line Breaks: This option is smarter. It first looks for double line breaks, which usually signify a real paragraph break, and protects them. It then removes all the single line breaks. Finally, it restores the protected paragraph breaks, leaving you with clean paragraphs.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q1: What's the main difference between the two "Remove" buttons?

Use "Remove ALL Line Breaks" when you want your text to become one single paragraph. Use "Remove EXTRA Line Breaks" when your text has multiple paragraphs that you want to keep, but you need to remove the unwanted breaks inside those paragraphs.

Q2: Will this tool affect other formatting like bold, italics, or links?

No. This is a plain text tool. It only manipulates newline characters and spaces. It does not process or understand rich text formatting like bold, italics, font sizes, or hyperlinks. When you paste your text here, it will be treated as plain text.

Q3: Is the text I paste into this tool safe and private?

Yes, absolutely. This tool is built with JavaScript and runs entirely within your web browser. All the text processing happens on your own computer. Your text is never sent to, or stored on, our servers, ensuring your data remains completely private.