How It Works

The tool applies a series of safe, rule-based transformations to your text. You choose which rules to enable, then the fixer rewrites spacing around punctuation while preserving your original characters and line breaks as much as possible. It is designed for practical editing: quick cleanup without “rewriting” your tone.

Under the hood, the fixer uses targeted patterns to remove unwanted whitespace and to insert a single space where a space is typically expected. It also includes safeguards for common numeric formats, so decimals like 3.14 and grouped numbers like 1,000 stay intact. The result is predictable and repeatable, which is useful when you need consistent output across a team.

Step-by-step process

• 1) Paste your text: Add the content you want to clean—paragraphs, UI strings, comments, or multi-line notes.
• 2) Select rules: Toggle fixes such as removing spaces before punctuation or normalizing spaces after commas and colons.
• 3) Generate output: The tool rewrites the text and shows a ready-to-copy result with basic stats.
• 4) Copy or download: Copy to clipboard for immediate use or download a plain-text file for later.

If you are unsure which rules to use, start with the defaults. They focus on the most common mistakes (spaces before punctuation, repeated spaces, and parentheses spacing) and usually produce “safe” improvements without changing your formatting goals.

Key Features

Remove spaces before punctuation

Automatically deletes extra whitespace that appears before commas, periods, semicolons, colons, exclamation points, and question marks. This is the classic “space-before-comma” mistake that often appears after copy/paste or quick edits. Example: Witaj , świecie ! becomes Witaj, świecie!.

This feature is especially useful when you merge text from multiple contributors. Different keyboards, autocorrect behaviors, and editor settings can introduce inconsistent spacing. Removing spaces before punctuation instantly makes the text feel cohesive.

Normalize spaces after commas, colons, and semicolons

Ensures consistent spacing after punctuation used inside sentences. When enabled, the tool inserts exactly one space after commas, colons, and semicolons if the next character is a letter or symbol and there is no space already. This prevents outputs like hello,world and aligns with common editorial conventions.

For lists, the improvement is immediate: apples,bananas,pears becomes apples, bananas, pears. For UI copy and error messages, it improves scanning and reduces the chance that punctuation “sticks” to the next word on small screens.

Normalize spaces after sentence-ending punctuation

For periods, exclamation points, and question marks, the fixer can enforce a single space after punctuation when a new sentence continues on the same line. It avoids common numeric patterns like decimals (3.14) and digit groupings (1,000) so you do not end up with broken numbers such as 3. 14 or 1, 000.

If you are editing content that includes abbreviations (for example, e.g., i.e., or honorifics like Dr.), you may prefer to leave this option off and rely on your editor’s style checks. The goal is to give you control: apply the rule when it matches your content type.

Fix parentheses spacing

Removes unnecessary spaces just inside parentheses—turning ( example ) into (example). It also helps with brackets that often pick up stray whitespace during drafting, such as ( 2026 ) or ( link ).

In documentation and UI strings, clean parentheses spacing is more than aesthetics: it improves readability and reduces the chance of weird wrapping where the opening parenthesis drifts away from the term it belongs to.

Collapse repeated spaces and trim line endings

Reduces runs of repeated spaces or tabs to a single space, while preserving line breaks. This is helpful when text has been aligned manually using spaces or has accumulated extra whitespace through repeated edits and copy/paste. It can also remove trailing spaces at the end of lines, which is valuable for markdown files, code comments, and any workflow where diffs should stay clean.

Because formatting matters, this tool keeps line breaks by default. That means you can clean spacing inside each line without flattening your whole document into one paragraph.

Use Cases

• Web design & UI microcopy: Clean text for buttons, tooltips, modals, onboarding screens, and form labels so punctuation looks consistent across your interface.
• SEO and content marketing: Tidy blog drafts and landing pages before publishing, especially when you combine notes from multiple writers, tools, and editors.
• Copy/paste cleanup: Remove spacing artifacts introduced by PDFs, email clients, chats, and OCR exports. This is common when text is copied from formatted documents into plain editors.
• Academic and business writing: Normalize punctuation spacing in reports, proposals, abstracts, and internal documentation without changing phrasing.
• Localization prep: Prepare text for translation by removing inconsistent spacing patterns that can confuse translators or translation memory systems.
• Customer support templates: Clean canned responses and macros so they look polished and consistent even after many revisions.
• Product documentation and changelogs: Keep punctuation spacing stable across releases, making diffs cleaner and easier to review.

In practice, punctuation cleanup is a “last mile” step. It rarely changes meaning, but it strongly improves readability and trust. Readers notice when something looks off, even if they cannot explain why. A quick pass with the fixer can make content feel intentionally crafted rather than hurried.

This is also a time-saver for teams. Instead of manually scanning for tiny spacing mistakes, you can standardize the obvious issues automatically and spend your attention on clarity, structure, and accuracy.

Optimization Tips

Match the tool settings to your style guide

Different organizations apply slightly different typography conventions. Many style guides prefer one space after commas and colons, but may handle sentence spacing differently in code snippets or UI labels. If you are writing for a product design system, aim for consistency. Save a “default” set of toggles you can reuse for the same kind of content (marketing pages vs. in-app copy vs. documentation).

If you work in Polish, the defaults are typically a good fit: no space before punctuation and a single space after commas and colons. If you work in mixed-language contexts, test the tool on a representative sample (for example, headings, bullet lists, and paragraphs) to ensure output stays aligned with your editorial preferences.

Be mindful with technical text, code, and tables

For markdown and code comments, removing spaces before punctuation and trimming line endings is usually safe. Collapsing repeated spaces, however, may change alignment in code blocks, ASCII tables, or manually aligned lists. If you need to preserve alignment, disable “collapse repeated spaces” and use only the punctuation rules.

A good approach is to clean prose separately from structured text. Run the fixer on paragraphs and UI strings, but keep code blocks and data tables untouched or use rule toggles that do not affect alignment.

Review number-heavy or abbreviation-heavy content

If your text contains measurements, prices, dates, or statistics, make sure numeric formats stay unchanged. This tool includes logic to avoid breaking patterns like decimals (3.14) and digit groupings (1,000), but it is still smart to scan the output when your content is data-heavy.

Likewise, some abbreviations use punctuation internally. If you write many abbreviations (like e.g., i.e., or domain-style strings), consider disabling sentence punctuation spacing or applying it only when you are sure it will not split abbreviations. The best results come from choosing rules that match your content type.

FAQ