Dot showing up under characters - Adobe Indesign

Sounds like the dot *is* a character. Plant your cursor to the left of
the character-dot combination. Press the right arrow one time. Press the
delete key once. Is it gone?

--
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com

It's a Word thing :-)
The plot thickens when you select it and choose the "Info" panel. ID thinks it's a character "F020" -- Word thinks it's a space, albeit a weird one.
If you have lots of them (or just want to make sure they're all gone), you can replace them with

* Search "<F020>" -- exactly so, but without the quotes.
* Replace with " " (a single space)

You might also want to replace double spaces with a single one after that, just in case.

I tried Kenneth's suggestion. The dot just moves to the prior character. It looks like a pronunciation dot, as in a dictionary. It is under a bullet so I thought it was a bullet problem although it doesn't affect all the bullets in the list. But when I backspace, removing the paragraph mark, the dot moves to the last character in the line above.

Just tried Jongware's suggestion and what do you know... it works. So what is the deal? What was it again? I am using a variety of white space marks throughout the document (en-space, third space, etc.) as I was told that double-spaces are no longer 'done.' Does it have to do with that?

Thanks again Jongware!

"I am using a variety of white space marks throughout the document (en-space, third space, etc.) as I was told that double-spaces are no longer 'done.' Does it have to do with that?"

Probably. You are really complicating your work by forcing unnecessary fixed width spacing. InDesign has a very powerful composition engine that spaces type. You need do no more than use the space character.

k

This is very probably a Unicode issue.

F020 indicates a character in the so-called 'Private Use Area' of Unicode, and there is no accepted 'interpretation' of anything appearing here.

If this text was imported from Word or some Unicode-based text format, ID3 clearly does the wrong thing: these characters are 'private use', and should not be allowed to cross from one application to another.