What it does
Text copied from a PDF, an old email, or a terminal often has a line break at the end of every line:
When you copy text from a PDF, every line
ends with a line break, so it breaks apart
when you paste it somewhere else.
Paste it here and the lines are joined back into one paragraph:
When you copy text from a PDF, every line ends with a line break, so it breaks apart when you paste it somewhere else.
Choose how lines are joined
| Line breaks setting | What you get |
|---|---|
| Join lines, keep paragraphs (default) | Lines joined with spaces; a blank line still separates paragraphs |
| Join everything into one line | One line of text, everything joined with spaces |
| Join with commas | Each line becomes an item: “apple, banana, cherry” |
| Keep each line | No joining, for when you only want sorting or clean-up |
The same box can also sort lines, remove duplicates, and find and replace, so you can tidy a list in the same step.
How it works
The text is split into paragraphs wherever there’s a blank line. Inside each paragraph, every line is trimmed and joined to the next with a single space. Paragraphs are then put back together with one blank line between them. Windows (CRLF) and old Mac (CR) line endings are handled the same way.
Limits
Headings, bullet points, and table rows in a PDF have no blank line after them, so they get joined to the next line. Add a blank line after them first if you want them kept apart.