“Hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) and press arrow keys to change the spacing between the frames.”

(https://help.adobe.com/en_US/in…..6c1fa.html)

A possible issue could be that you cannot open your Interleaf document with InDesign …

What sort of document is that? Can your program “Interleaf” save as something you can import into ID? (XML, various database formats, Excel, RTF, Word … plain text, if all else fails …)

Bullet settings are stored in paragraph styles. Are you using paragraph styles? It sounds like you don't:

.. I have set up the sizes the the bullet window. When I set a paragraph with a bullet in the menu bar at top ..

I’m not sure where else you imagine I might have typed the code …

It wasn't entirely clear from your post … Besides, you already got a number of other things wrong, so I thought I'd better make verify! Well, valuable lesson learned — ID can take a lot of abuse but at some point things stop working.

^t^i, I presume. So my follow-up query is: How and where do I set the tab distance?

Tab distance is easy (depending on whether you are using styles or not). When not using styles, call up the Tab ruler from within the footnote (it's in the Type menu) and start dragging tab stops. When using styles, call up the Tabs panel and do the same. You can also look up Paragraph Indents in the Help, then you won't need to specify the indent-to-here code.

Setting up a unique style for just the footnote number in a footnote is kinda tricky. I thought I remembered it used the same character style, but you are correct: that only applies for the text reference, and there are no special provisions for the footnote itself. So let's make one!

First create a new Character Style and name it “Note number”. Just enable your OSF here — no need to override font, size, or anything else (well, unless you want to — then it's OK). Then, in your Footnote paragraph style, add a GREP style. Set the text to match to this:

~F

and the style to apply to “Note number”. Then … press OK and enjoy. That's all!

(The Magic Trick is that the automatic footnote number is not a regular number, so the usual stuff of finding and matching digits is not necessary. Instead, the style is applied to just the Footnote Reference Marker, which is the official name of the “automatic footnote number” code that gets inserted in footnotes. You guessed right: that code is “~F”.)

Alas, the goold old Adobe Forum seems to be on the verge of a total breakdown. Attachments, login system, editor, search function, and even its own internal referring system (“More like this: Unable to retrieve content from the server” …) are all broken. It's sad.

Try this new link: https://forums.adobe.com/thread…..?tstart=60

I wonder how long that will stay valid.

I (for one) was hoping someone else would come up with a brilliant solution ;)

If I have to indent a footnote, I use a tab and regular left indent. Your one-or-more digits distance cannot be solved that way, though. Do you insert the en-space using the Footnote options? What if you add an Indent-to-Here right after that? These are the codes:

^>^i

It's easy-to-the-extreme — that is, if you know the trick!

Draw your frame o' numbers the usual way. Draw an empty container rectangle. Cut number frame. Select empty rectangle. Choose “Paste into”. Now you can move the frame with the text around inside the container rectangle!

Of course you don't need to paste into a rectangle, it can be any other shape. Try this: convert some text to outlines, then make a large frame with the Lorum Ipsem placeholder text in a really small size, and paste that inside your outlined-text-frame.

(Hey, where did dat button library on the left come from? :D )

Generally speaking, it's not wise to open an existing file for editing in a newer version. You just might have to edit more than you think.

With every upgrade cycle, I took care not to do this, and I haven't had any of these problems at all.

(Only time I did get problems was when I got weird results with an existing file template; then again, it turned out that particular original file went all the way back to the original CS. So a simple saving as IDML cleansed that one.)