What is this line in between the words?

When I get a damaged or poorly constructed InDesign doc that I have to throw into an app like SDL Trados Studio, I never know how much preparatory work is going to be necessary before it's ready to go to translation. Sometimes I just have to fly through and remove some soft returns with a regex; other times I have to basically rebuild it from the ground up. But my target isn't a well-constructed InDesign document, it's merely one that is not so broken that it gets stuck in the hopper. However, folks in Sourabh's shoes (like me) do expect in most cases to need to do at least some preparatory work before a given InDesign doc gets processed. Honestly, the quality of work we talk about here on these forums is found in maybe 2-3% of the docs I handle, and that's being generous. Files from many people with the "graphic designer" job title are just absolute spaghetti inside.

Sourabh's problem here is that these minor style changes discussed by Brad are leading to major tagging problems, when they ordinarily wouldn't. I sometimes go through and correct a client's styling before dropping the file into the TM hopper, as such automatic text-harvesting tools tend to work better with well-groomed styles. But this case, where some minor color changing is leading to very fragmented text in Trados, is an outlier. If I had to clear "all overrides" on all InDesign docs before dropping 'em into my TM workflow, well, I'd be billing for twice as many hours.... or, more likely, my social service clients would only be able to afford half as much translation work.

I'm not saying it's an active cursor, but rather a bad screen draw.

Can you share a small sample file that shows this? I'd like to see if the mark is present on multiple systems.