Clean Copied Text

Remove duplicate lines

Paste a list and remove repeated lines while keeping the first occurrence. Useful for lists, emails, spreadsheet data, names, tags and keywords. Choose case-sensitive or case-insensitive matching.

38 characters · 6 words · 6 lines · 1 paragraphs

0 characters · 0 words · 0 lines · 0 paragraphs

Your text stays in your browser. Clean Copied Text does not upload or store what you paste.

What this tool fixes

  • Repeated lines removed, first one kept
  • Optional case-insensitive matching
  • Leading and trailing spaces ignored when comparing
  • Order preserved (no sorting unless you want it)

How to use it

  1. 1Paste your textDrop in the messy text you copied from anywhere.
  2. 2Click cleanClean Copied Text fixes the formatting instantly, in your browser.
  3. 3Copy the resultCopy the clean text or download it as a .txt file.

Common uses

De-duplicating email or contact listsCleaning keyword and tag listsRemoving repeated rows from copied dataTidying merged lists from multiple sources

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Frequently asked questions

Does it keep the original order?
Yes. The first occurrence of each line stays in place; later duplicates are removed.
Is matching case-sensitive?
By default matching is case-insensitive and ignores surrounding spaces. You can change this in the fine-tune options.