We needed a program that can be used to remove tabs, returns, line feeds, and/or multiple spaces in a row. Often in programing we have a need to compact everything, for example, some web programs we use written by other people get temperamental when there are unneeded spaces. We just load (or paste) the file in and then hit process and it makes sure there is nothing but single spaces. We've also use it when we are given queries to use against a database in word or excel. People put returns in to make it more readable but we dont want to send that to the database server so we compact it. Then you can copy and paste the output or save it to a file. Pretty basic and that's why its free.