How to Remove Line Breaks from a List

Q: How do I remove all line breaks from a block of text?

Paste it into Find & Replace , enable Regex mode, set Find to \n and Replace to a space (or leave Replace empty to remove the breaks with no gap at all), then click Replace All.

Text copied from a PDF, an email, or a chat window sometimes carries line breaks in places you don't want them - a paragraph that should read as one continuous line, or a list of words that needs to become a single line of text for a form field that won't accept multiple lines.

Quick answer

Paste your text into Find & Replace, switch to Regex mode, set Find to \n, and set Replace to a single space (or leave it empty to join everything with nothing in between). Click Replace All and every line break is gone, leaving one continuous line.

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How to remove line breaks in 3 steps

Paste your text into Find & Replace.
Enable Regex mode, set Find to \n, and set Replace to whatever should go in place of each line break - a single space keeps words separated, leaving it empty joins everything with no gap at all.
Click Replace All. The output is now one continuous line.

Example

Text like this:

The quarterly
report is due
Friday

with line breaks replaced by a space becomes:

The quarterly report is due Friday

If you specifically want a comma-separated line instead

Replacing line breaks with a space or nothing works for turning prose or a word list into one line of plain text, but if the goal is specifically a comma-separated string - for pasting into code, a spreadsheet formula, or a CSV field - use Text Fixer's "Joined (CSV)" output format instead, which joins every line with a comma automatically. See the full guide to converting a list into a comma-separated string for that specific case.

Doing more than one find-and-replace at once?

Find & Replace supports up to 8 chained find-and-replace pairs in a single pass.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I remove all line breaks from a block of text?

Paste it into Find & Replace, enable Regex mode, set Find to \n and Replace to a space (or leave Replace empty to remove the breaks with no gap at all), then click Replace All.

Why do I need Regex mode for this instead of a normal find and replace?

\n is a regex pattern that matches an actual line break character, not the two literal characters "\" and "n". Regex mode is what tells Find & Replace to interpret it that way rather than searching for that literal text.

What's the difference between replacing line breaks with a space versus removing them entirely?

A space keeps words readable and separated ("word1 word2"), while replacing with nothing joins them directly together ("word1word2"). Use a space unless you specifically want words concatenated with no gap.

Can I turn a list into a comma-separated line instead of just removing the breaks?

Yes, that's a related but different operation. Use Text Fixer's "Joined (CSV)" output format, which joins every line with a comma automatically - see the full guide for that case.

Does this work on text copied from a PDF or Word document?

Yes. Line breaks behave the same regardless of where the text originated - PDF, Word, email, or a chat export all use the same underlying line break characters that \n matches.

Will this affect blank lines too?

Yes, a blank line is just two line breaks in a row, so it gets collapsed along with every other line break in the text.

Can I remove line breaks and also clean up other formatting in the same pass?

Yes. Find & Replace supports up to 8 chained find-and-replace pairs, so you can remove line breaks and fix other issues - extra spaces, stray characters - in the same single pass.