Quickly clear leading/trailing whitespace or blank lines from copied text
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When copying text from a webpage or document, extra spaces and blank lines are often included. If the text is pasted into an Excel spreadsheet, the extra spaces can cause data misalignment and affect the layout aesthetics. When organizing content from multiple sources, removing leading and trailing whitespace ensures consistent formatting. When processing sensitive text, removing hidden whitespace characters can also help avoid unnecessary metadata. The following explains how to uniformly strip leading and trailing whitespace or blank lines from the text content in the clipboard.
1. Use Cases
When text copied from a webpage or PDF contains extra spaces and blank lines, or when clipboard content has unwanted whitespace, we can directly clean it up.
2. Effect Preview
Before processing:
After processing:
3. Operation Steps
Open【 HeSoft Copy Paste Assistant 】, click【Read System Clipboard】or Ctrl + C + C to import clipboard content.
After the clipboard text is imported, choose【Remove Leading and Trailing Whitespace from Each Line】and【Remove Blank Lines】based on the content you need to delete.
After whitespace removal is complete, click【Copy Text】to copy the modified text.
Finally, paste it anywhere you need.
