Spreadsheet Cell Text Cleaner — Tidy Messy Data Instantly
When you gather data from multiple sources, cells in Google Sheets or Excel often end up with extra leading/trailing spaces, duplicate spaces, and invisible Unicode whitespace characters (zero-width spaces, non-breaking spaces) that you can't see on screen. These hidden characters are a common cause of broken VLOOKUP, filter, and duplicate-removal results.
Just copy a range of cells from your spreadsheet and paste it directly into this tool — it recognizes tabs as cell boundaries and line breaks as row boundaries, then cleans the whitespace and special characters in every cell. Paste the cleaned result back into your spreadsheet and the original cell layout is preserved. All data is processed locally in your browser and never sent to a server.
Frequently Asked Questions
Copy a cell range from Google Sheets or Excel and paste it directly — tabs and line breaks are recognized automatically.
Leading/trailing spaces, duplicate spaces, and invisible Unicode characters like zero-width spaces and non-breaking spaces.
Yes — the output keeps the same tab/line-break structure, so pasting it back preserves your spreadsheet layout.