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Cool site for cleaning up text

If you’re in any way related to the web operation at a news company, you’ve probably been sent an email and asked to “get this up on the web site” - as soon as possible. When you open the email, you find it’s full of extra line breaks that you have to manually remove in order to make it presentable on the site.

A colleague of mine found a better way: Text Fixer. This site has a handy tool for removing those pesky line breaks in milliseconds.  It can also do other tricks, like removing tabs or replacing line break with HTML paragraph tags.

I highly recommend it.