Quickly remove leading and trailing spaces or blank lines from copied text content


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SummaryWhen copying text from a webpage or document, it often includes extra spaces and blank lines. If pasted into an Excel spreadsheet, these extra spaces can cause data misalignment and affect the aesthetic of the layout. By clearing leading and trailing spaces, the format remains consistent when organizing content from multiple sources; removing hidden whitespace characters can also prevent unnecessary metadata when handling sensitive text. Below is an introduction on how to uniformly remove leading and trailing spaces or blank lines from clipboard text content.


1、Usage Scenarios

When text copied from a webpage or PDF contains extra spaces and blank lines, or when clipboard text content has whitespace that needs to be removed, we can directly perform the cleanup.

2、Preview

Before Processing:

After Processing:

3、Operation Steps

Open 【HeSoft Copy Paste Assistant】, click 【Read System Clipboard】 or press Ctrl + C + C to import clipboard content.

After importing the clipboard text, choose 【Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces of Each Line】 and 【Remove Blank Lines】 as needed.

After removing blank content, click 【Copy Text】 to copy the modified text.

Finally, paste it anywhere you like.


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