Guides
Short, practical guides that answer the questions our tools raise — how to clean a list in Excel, why a JSON file refuses to parse, how many words a page really holds. Every guide is written for this site and checked against the tool it recommends, so the steps you read are the steps that work.
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How to Extract Emails from Messy Text
Learn how to extract emails from messy text — documents, web pages, exports and logs — into a clean, deduped list, one per line, ready for a spreadsheet.
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Sort Lines Alphabetically or by Number
Sort a list A to Z, Z to A or by number — with natural sort, so file 2 comes before file 10 — and learn what case, duplicates and empty lines do.
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How to Remove Duplicate Lines in Excel, Word, Notepad — and Online
Clean a list wherever it lives — Excel, Sheets, Word or Notepad — and learn what really counts as a duplicate.
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Why Is My JSON Invalid? The 9 Errors That Break Almost Every File
Nine small mistakes break almost every JSON file. See each one beside its fix.
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How Many Words Are on a Page? Full Chart
About 500 words single-spaced, 250 double-spaced — the full chart by font, size and spacing.
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How Long Does It Take to Read 1,000 Words? The Reading & Speaking Time Chart
About five minutes to read or seven minutes to say aloud — the full chart for reading and speaking time.
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How to Write Numbers in Words
Learn how to write numbers in words for cheques, invoices and exams — hyphen rules, the and question, decimals, lakh and million scales, with worked examples.
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What Is a URL Slug?
What a URL slug is, where it appears, good vs bad examples — and the six rules for short, clean, clickable links.
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Character Limits That Actually Matter: X, SMS, Meta Descriptions & More
280 characters for an X post, 160 for a single SMS, about 155–160 for a meta description — the full chart, what happens when you go over, and how to check your text before you post.
Character Counter
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How Long Does It Take to Read or Speak Your Text?
Reading and speaking time for any text — the full chart.
Reading Time Calculator
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