Remove Line Breaks from Pasted Text

What this fixes

This tool joins lines that should be one paragraph back together, while leaving real paragraph breaks alone. A single line break inside a block of text becomes a space, a blank line between two blocks stays as one blank line, and runs of repeated spaces or tabs collapse to a single space with leading and trailing whitespace trimmed. Your wording is never changed — only line breaks and spacing.

Before and after

This sentence was pasted
with a line break after
every visual line.

This second paragraph
should stay separate.

This sentence was pasted with a line break after every visual line.

This second paragraph should stay separate.

Common line break problems

A line break in the wrong place is rarely something you typed on purpose — it's usually a side effect of how the text was displayed somewhere else:

• Email clients wrap at a fixed width. A forwarded message or a paragraph copied from webmail often arrives as dozens of short lines instead of the paragraphs the sender wrote.
• Notes apps wrap visually, not structurally. Text that looked like one paragraph in a notes app can paste elsewhere with a line break at every point it wrapped on screen.
• Chat transcripts and exported conversations often put each message, or each sentence, on its own line, so a copied conversation reads as a long column of short lines.
• Text copied from a web page can carry a line break wherever the page happened to wrap, especially from narrow columns, sidebars, or captions.
• Short snippets that need to become one paragraph — an address, a quote, or a few lines of notes — often need every line break turned into a space before they're useful in a form field or a sentence.

How it works

The rule set is deliberately small. Single line breaks inside a paragraph become spaces, blank lines between paragraphs are kept as exactly one blank line, and runs of repeated spaces collapse to one. The same input always produces the same output, and your wording never changes.

Need more than line breaks fixed? If your text came from a PDF or an OCR scan with hyphen-split words, lists, and spacing problems, the PDF Text Cleaner handles all of that with structure-aware rules.

Common uses

People reach for this tool whenever pasted text comes in as too many short lines:

• Reassembling a forwarded email or copied message into normal paragraphs before replying or quoting it.
• Turning notes copied from a notes app into a single block of text for a document or message.
• Cleaning up a chat transcript or exported conversation so it reads as continuous text.
• Tidying a paragraph copied from a web page before pasting it into an article or summary.
• Turning a short block of broken-up text into one paragraph, or adding readable spacing between list items.

If the pasted text also carries leftover Markdown symbols like **, #, or > from a chat export, the Markdown Paste Cleaner strips those. If the casing is inconsistent — ALL CAPS headings mixed with normal text — the Text Case Converter can fix that in a second pass.