Maybe you should post it in the scripting forum, and also state that this is VBScript and not JavaScript.

You can leave everything the way you want and use the following cleanup FindChangeList.txt script support to clean up the file in one fell swoop.

If you’re not familiar with FindChangebyList check it this article, it’s very simple.

Just replace the default FindChanngelist text support file contents with the following lines:

grep	{findWhat:"(?s)(bd{8,}b)(.+?)(d{1,3})(.+?)(1(.+?)(d{1,3})(.+?))+"}	{changeTo: "", appliedFont:"Times New Roman", fontStyle:"Italic"}	{searchBackwards:false, includeLockedStoriesForFind:false, includeLockedLayersForFind:false, includeHiddenLayers:false, includeMasterPages:false, includeFootnotes:false, kanaSensitive:true, widthSensitive:true} //Find duplicates and apply temporary formatting

grep	{findWhat:"(d{1,3})(r)", appliedFont:"Times New Roman", fontStyle:"Italic"}	{changeTo: "$1,"}	{searchBackwards:false, includeLockedStoriesForFind:false, includeLockedLayersForFind:false, includeHiddenLayers:false, includeMasterPages:false, includeFootnotes:false, kanaSensitive:true, widthSensitive:true} //Delete returns & add commas

grep	{findWhat:"(?<=,)(d{8,}).+?(?=d)", appliedFont:"Times New Roman", fontStyle:"Italic"}	{changeTo: ""}	{searchBackwards:false, includeLockedStoriesForFind:false, includeLockedLayersForFind:false, includeHiddenLayers:false, includeMasterPages:false, includeFootnotes:false, kanaSensitive:true, widthSensitive:true} //Delete all unnecessary characters

grep	{findWhat:",$", appliedFont:"Times New Roman", fontStyle:"Italic"}	{changeTo: ""}	{searchBackwards:false, includeLockedStoriesForFind:false, includeLockedLayersForFind:false, includeHiddenLayers:false, includeMasterPages:false, includeFootnotes:false, kanaSensitive:true, widthSensitive:true} //Delete last comma  

What this basically does is find any instances of duplicate entries, apply a temporary font (Times New Roman, Italic), then find any text with said formatting and delete any returns and replace with commas. Then delete all unnecessary text and delete the last comma.

Just Note: When the script is done, there will be local Times New Roman formatting on all the fixed instances so make sure to select all text and press on the Clear Overrides in Selection button on the bottom of the paragraph styles panel.

The best way that I could come up with is by faking it with two square brackets — an opening square bracket followed immediately by a closing square bracket.

You can set this up automatically without having to type it in manually in every paragraph by going to Paragraph Style Options > Bullets and Numbering then in the Numbering Style section you’ll see a Number: pane with the following string as the default (unless it was changed, of course): ^#.^t. Just change that string with this: [] ^#.^t.

That’s the best way I can think off.

I don’t have any idea about this mysterious issue, but here are some insight:

• You can upload a screenshot. Just upload to imgur.com (or any image-hosting site) and post the link here (or embed, if possible)
• You should try to export you InDesign file to .idml every now and then (especially when it gets hectic) to clean up the file from cruft or bugs
• If you have any plugins installed, make sure they’re not the cause of the problem
• I’ve heard of people that are wary of placing a live InDesign file on a server, maybe this is the reason why?…
• And lastly, why haven’t you updated to CC 2015.3? Maybe that would fix the bug

Maybe you mistakenly set up an inside bleed of .1pt. So make sure that the inside bleed is set to 0.

Unfortunately this does not seem to be possible to do automatically in InDesign. What you can do is to insert all the desired spaces in one fell swoop with GREP Find/Change.

Following are the settings:
Find What: (\S)(:)
Change To: $1~S$2

As soon as you hit Change All, all the colons in your story will be preceded by a non-breaking space.