About Remove Line Breaks
Text copied out of PDFs, emails, chat messages and web pages often arrives with a line break at the end of every visual line. The result looks broken as soon as it is pasted into a document, a form field or a spreadsheet cell, and fixing it by hand is slow on anything longer than a paragraph. This tool rejoins those lines in one step and shows the character, word and line counts before and after, so the change is visible rather than assumed.
Three line-break modes cover the cases that actually come up: replace every break with a single space, delete only the blank lines while keeping one line per row, or merge wrapped lines into paragraphs. Optional switches trim spaces at the edges of lines, collapse repeated spaces and strip bullet markers such as - and *, so a pasted list can become readable sentences or stay a list.
What this tool does
Three line-break modes
Remove every break with a single space, delete blank lines only, or merge wrapped lines into paragraphs while keeping the gap between them.
Trim and collapse whitespace
Trim each line and collapse runs of spaces, so pasted text loses the indentation and double spaces that came with its layout.
Bullet markers optional
Keep or remove leading bullet markers such as -, *, •, · and + so a pasted list becomes readable sentences or stays a list.
Live before and after counts
Characters, words and lines are shown for the input and the result side by side and update as you type or change an option.
Paste, sample, copy and download
Load a sample with blank lines and bullets, copy the result, or save it as a .txt file, and clear everything for the next job.
Browser-only, no upload
Everything runs in the page with JavaScript. The text never leaves the tab, and closing it discards the input and the output.
How to use Remove Line Breaks
- 01
Paste or load your text
Paste into the input box or drop a .txt file to load it. The text is read in this browser tab and never uploaded.
- 02
Choose how line breaks are handled
Pick remove all line breaks, delete blank lines only or merge paragraphs, depending on the shape the destination needs.
- 03
Turn on the cleanup options
Trim each line, collapse repeated spaces and remove bullet markers. The result updates as soon as an option changes.
- 04
Compare the before and after counts
Check characters, words and lines on both sides to confirm the text changed the way you expected before copying it.
- 05
Copy or download the result
Copy the cleaned text to the clipboard, or download it as a .txt file you can find later on your device.
Supported formats and limits
- Input
- TXT
- Output
- TXT
- Processing
- Client-side, in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
- Maximum size
- Up to 10 MB per .txt file
- Requirements
- Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari · JavaScript enabled
Limitations worth knowing
- Works on plain text only: bold, links, tables and other formatting are lost because the tool processes characters, not layout.
- Bullet removal only strips a leading marker. Nested indentation and numbering such as 1. are left alone, so check numbered lists after converting.
- Very large pastes (several megabytes) depend on the memory of the device and may be slower in older mobile browsers; the optional .txt upload accepts files up to 10 MB.
- A paragraph is any run of non-empty lines, so prose that already has hard breaks inside sentences needs the merge option rather than the all-breaks option.
Privacy and file handling
Your text never leaves this browser tab. Conversion, character counts, copying and the .txt download are all handled with JavaScript on your device, so nothing is uploaded, stored or logged. Closing or refreshing the page discards the input and the result.
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