Cleaning Up Your Text

Each time you click with the Type tool (T) and then decide not to add type after all, you may be adding small text insertion points that could end up causing you grief. You won't see these points in Preview mode, but if you switch to Outline mode from the View menu, you'll see a little X for each insertion point. To automatically remove all of the extra points, go to the Object menu and choose Path>Clean Up. In the dialog, make sure that Empty Text Paths is checked and then click OK. All those unnecessary potentially troublesome empty text points will go away.