diff --git a/macros/ui/niceTables.pl b/macros/ui/niceTables.pl
index 163b52b7ba..71c6759b2f 100644
--- a/macros/ui/niceTables.pl
+++ b/macros/ui/niceTables.pl
@@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ sub TableOptions {
 
 sub ParseAlignment {
 	my $alignment = shift;
-	$alignment =~ s/\R//g;
+	$alignment =~ s/\s//g;
 
 	# first we parse things like *{20}{...} to expand them
 	my $pattern = qr/\*\{(\d+)\}\{(.*?)\}/;