Example
Our return policy allows exchanges within 30 days of purchase. Receipts are required for all refunds.
Our return policy allows exchanges within 30 days of purchase. Receipts are required for all refunds.
Why copied text has extra line breaks
PDFs store text as positioned lines rather than flowing paragraphs, so every visual line ends in a hard break when you copy it. Pasted into an email or document, those lines don’t reflow and leave a ragged right edge.
Keeping paragraphs
With “Keep paragraph breaks” on, blank lines count as paragraph separators and stay in place. Only the breaks inside each paragraph are removed. Turn it off to merge everything into one block.
Turning a list into one line
Choose “A comma” to turn a one-per-line list into a comma-separated line, for example to paste email addresses or tags into a single field.
Common sources of unwanted line breaks
Besides PDFs, line breaks creep in from plain-text emails (which are often wrapped at about 72 characters), subtitles and transcripts, text copied from narrow newspaper or magazine columns, and output from scanners and OCR. In each case the breaks mark where a line ended on the original page, not where a thought ended.
Words split with a hyphen
When a PDF split a word across two lines with a hyphen, the result will contain “hyphen- ated” with a space. Use Find and replace to search for a hyphen followed by a space and replace it with nothing, then check that real hyphenated words such as “well-known” are untouched.
Our guide to fixing text copied from a PDF walks through the whole cleanup, including double spaces and stray page numbers.