Guides – Remove Line Breaks in Excel, Word, PDF & More
Short, practical guides for cleaning up text in the apps you use every day. Each guide shows the built-in way first, and a one-click option with our free tools.
Excel and Google Sheets
- How to Remove Line Breaks in ExcelFind and Replace with Ctrl+J, SUBSTITUTE and CLEAN formulas, with examples.
- How to Remove Line Breaks in Google SheetsSUBSTITUTE, REGEXREPLACE and Find and replace with regular expressions.
- How to Convert Line Breaks to CommasTurn a list into comma separated values online, in Excel, Word or Notepad++.
Word, PDF and documents
- How to Remove Line Breaks in WordUse ^p and ^l in Find and Replace, and keep your real paragraphs.
- How to Remove Line Breaks from a PDF or Word FileUpload a PDF, DOCX, TXT or CSV file and download clean text.
- How to Copy Text Without Line BreaksCopy from any website, PDF or email with a one-click bookmarklet.
- How to Paste Without FormattingShortcuts for Windows, Mac, Word and Google Docs, plus a one-click fix.
Transcripts and subtitles
- How to Remove Timestamps from a YouTube TranscriptCopy a YouTube transcript and get clean paragraphs in three steps.
- How to Convert SRT to TextTurn SRT and VTT subtitle files into plain, readable text.
Free tools used in these guides
- Remove Line BreaksRemove all line breaks, keep paragraphs or fix PDF text.
- Join LinesMerge lines with a comma, space or any separator.
- Transcript CleanerRemove timestamps from YouTube, SRT and VTT transcripts.
- Fix ChatGPT TextRemove ** asterisks, # symbols and em dashes from AI text.
- BookmarkletClean selected text on any website in one click.
- Remove FormattingGet clean plain text from Word, Docs, websites and emails.
- Online NotepadAuto-saving notepad with word count and one-click cleaning.