In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, David Blatner shows you an easy way to clean up your text in InDesign using a built-in script. The FindChangeByList script removes unwanted spaces and returns, changes double-hyphens to dashes, and more by simply running this customizable script that is already inside of InDesign!
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This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on February 12, 2020
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