Clean Up Spurious White Space
The script removes leading, trailing, and duplicate white space. Optionally change all caps to sentence case.
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The script removes spurious white space (multiple returns, tabs, spaces). With nothing selected, the script processes the whole active document; with some text frame(s) or text selected, only that selection is dealt with.You can optionally replace all caps with sentence case: just tick the checkbox in the script’s interface.
Press OK or Enter/Return to run the script.
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This article was last modified on September 30, 2026
This article was first published on January 25, 2026
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