Remove Line Breaks
Why pasted text breaks badly
A PDF records where each line sits on the page rather than where a sentence ends, so copying it turns every printed line into a hard return. The text then reflows at the wrong width everywhere you paste it. Older email clients cause the same thing by wrapping at seventy-two characters.
The three modes
- Keep paragraphs — joins the breaks inside a paragraph and keeps the blank lines between them. This is what you want almost always.
- Remove every break — one continuous line, for a field that will not accept newlines.
- Only remove blank lines — keeps the line structure and just closes up the gaps.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A PDF stores where each line sits on the page, not where a sentence ends. Copying turns every printed line into a hard return, so the text arrives chopped at whatever width it was printed at.
Not on the default setting. A blank line between blocks is treated as a real paragraph break and kept; only the breaks inside a paragraph are joined. Use "remove every break" when you genuinely want one continuous line.
Printed text often splits a word across two lines with a hyphen — "informa-" then "tion". Joining the lines without care leaves "informa- tion", so the option stitches the word back together.
Yes. Windows and old Mac line endings are normalised, and the non-breaking spaces that email clients and Word insert are converted to ordinary spaces — those are usually what makes pasted text misbehave elsewhere.
No. Everything happens in your browser and nothing is stored or sent.