Text Wrapper guide
Reflow plain text into lines near a selected character width without inserting padding or changing word order.
What this tool does
The Text Wrapper normalizes whitespace between words and builds output lines up to a chosen width from 10 to 500 characters. Words move together onto the next line when adding another word would exceed that width. Optional paragraph preservation keeps blank-line-separated sections apart. Another option can split an individual word that is longer than the selected width.
The width is a character limit, not a physical measurement. Proportional fonts give letters different visual widths, while tabs, combining marks, and emoji can render differently across software. The output is therefore suitable for plain-text workflows, not pixel-perfect page layout.
Wrapping also changes existing manual line boundaries inside a paragraph. It does not preserve indentation, Markdown hard breaks, list nesting, tables, source-code formatting, or email quotation structure. Use a format-aware editor when those details are meaningful.
How to use it
- Paste the prose or plain-text passage.
- Enter the target maximum line width.
- Decide whether blank-line paragraphs should stay separate.
- Enable long-word splitting only if a single token must never exceed the width.
- Select Wrap text, inspect the longest-line report, and copy or download the output.
Common widths include 72 or 80 characters for plain-text documents, but the correct choice depends on the receiving system. Check its actual limit instead of relying on convention.
Word wrap example
With a width of 12, Wrap these words safely becomes two lines: Wrap these and words safely. The tool moves the next complete word when adding it would cross the limit. It does not pad shorter lines. For a fixed number of text sections rather than a line width, use the Text Chunker. To join unwanted manual breaks instead, use Remove Line Breaks. The Word Counter can then compare physical line, character, and word totals before and after reflowing.
Benefits
- Uses a clear, adjustable character limit
- Keeps words intact by default
- Can split exceptionally long tokens when required
- Preserves paragraph separation as an option
- Reports output lines and longest line length
- Runs without uploading the text
Understanding long words
When long-word splitting is disabled, a URL, identifier, or uninterrupted word may exceed the target. This is intentional because inserting a break can damage a link or code. When splitting is enabled, the tool cuts that token into measured pieces without adding a hyphen. The receiving application may still interpret those pieces separately, so verify functional identifiers afterward.