Text cleanup

Choose the change your draft needs

For a headline copied from a PDF, joining the wrapped lines may be useful. For a list of survey answer choices, those same line breaks separate the answers and should usually stay. Start with the smallest change, compare both panels and copy only after checking the result.

What each setting actually does

• Collapse extra spaces: replace runs of ordinary spaces and tabs with one space. It does not remove every kind of invisible Unicode character.
• Remove line breaks: join one or more line breaks with a space, including blank lines between paragraphs.
• Trim edges: remove whitespace from the beginning and end of each line.
• Remove duplicate lines: keep the first exact match, before the other cleanup steps. Capitalization and existing spaces matter.

Examples using the actual cleanup function

↵ shows a line break and · shows an ordinary space in the examples below.

In the last example, the two original lines differ by trailing spaces. Duplicate removal keeps both; trimming then makes them look identical. This order protects the original matching rule. If you need those final duplicates removed, copy the cleaned result back into the input and review it again.

Check what formatting was carrying

Keep the original when spacing or repeated lines carry meaning, such as code, a table, a poem or a transcript. Cleanup does not correct spelling, assess a claim or rewrite a sentence. Emoji joiners are preserved. Your text stays in this browser tab.

After cleaning campaign copy, check its length. For survey questions, review the wording and answer choices before sending them.