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Text Column Formatter
Fixed-width columns, justify text, pad and align - free, browser-only
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Text Column Formatter allows you to wrap text into fixed-width blocks with precise alignment and spacing. This free online tool functions as a versatile text aligner, giving you the ability to justify text online for a polished, newspaper-style look or pad lines for display in monospace environments. It handles word wrap operations gracefully, ensuring that long strings are moved to new lines without hyphenation, preserving the readability of your content across all terminal and plain-text interfaces.
Whether you need to center text for a decorative header or apply full justification to a technical report, this fixed width text utility provides the controls you need. The tool supports paragraph preservation, allowing you to format large blocks of prose while maintaining your original structure. By using the column width setting, you can prepare text for specific displays-such as 80-character terminal widths-making this an essential word wrap tool for system administrators and developers alike.
No - words longer than the target width are kept on their own line rather than hyphenated. This matches the behaviour of Unix fmt and most code editors' soft-wrap.
Extra spaces are distributed evenly between words on each line until the line reaches the target width. The last line of each paragraph is left-aligned, as is conventional in print typography.
Tabs and runs of multiple spaces collapse to a single space during wrapping. If you need literal tabs preserved, use the Text Whitespace Converter first.
Width is counted in code points, not visual cells. CJK fullwidth characters and emoji will still be counted as one character each, which can make lines look uneven in a monospace font.
Take control of your plain-text layout and ensure your content looks its best with this professional Text Column Formatter. Bookmark this page whenever you need a reliable way to justify and wrap your text for any technical or creative project.