68 · Text Tools

Remove Line Breaks

Text copied from PDFs often breaks at the end of every line. Paste it here to join the lines back into normal paragraphs.

How to use the remove line breaks

  1. Paste the text with unwanted line breaks.
  2. Keep Keep paragraph breaks on to preserve blank lines between paragraphs.
  3. Choose what to put where the line breaks were — usually a space.
  4. Copy the cleaned text.

Turning a column into a list

Choose A comma and turn off paragraph breaks to turn a column of values — for example, copied from a spreadsheet — into one comma-separated line.

Examples

Lines from a PDF: “The quick↵brown fox↵jumps.”

“The quick brown fox jumps.”

apple↵banana↵cherry, joined with commas

apple, banana, cherry

Questions

What about hyphenated words split across lines?

They’re joined with a space, so check for words like “inter- national” and fix them with Find and Replace.

Are spaces at line ends trimmed?

Yes, so you won’t get double spaces.

Is there a size limit?

No fixed limit. Very long documents work fine in modern browsers.