Clean Up Spurious White Space
The script removes leading, trailing, and duplicate white space. Optionally change all caps to sentence case.
This script is part of the Type and Text collection. See the full collection here.
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 August 22, 2026
This article was first published on January 25, 2026
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