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Quickly remove all empty lines created by manual line breaks in Word

Author: Kelly Last Modified: 2025-03-25

When working in Word, especially after pasting content from emails or text files, you may find unwanted blank lines scattered throughout the document. While it's easy to delete a few manually, doing so in a long document is time-consuming. Kutools for Word offers a convenient tool - Remove Empty Manual Line Breaks - that lets you delete all blank lines in a selection or the entire document with just one click.

Remove all blank or empty lines from the whole document

Remove all blank or empty lines from part of the document

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Feature Location: Kutools > Paragraphs > Remove All Empty Manual Line Breaks in Selected Range

Remove Empty Manual Line Breaks option in Kutools menu

Remove all blank or empty lines from the whole document

  1. Make sure no text is selected in the document.
  2. Click Kutools > Paragraphs > Remove All Empty Manual Line Breaks in Selected Range.

All blank or empty lines throughout the document will be removed.

Original document with blank lines created by manual line breaks
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All blank lines created by manual line breaks removed from the document

Remove all blank or empty lines from a part of document

  1. Select the portion of the document where you want to remove blank lines.
  2. Click Kutools > Paragraphs > Remove All Empty Manual Line Breaks in Selected Range.

All blank or empty lines in the selected range will be removed.

A selected range in the document containing blank lines
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Alank lines removed from the selected range

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