Footnote layout issue "rule on" unticked yet appears in some pages

[Altibel]

Hi,

I am working on a thesis, imported word documents for each chapter and tried to clean and override Word styles as much as possible. It was a mess and had to re-format most of the text with the styles I had made in InDesign.

The issue is now with the footnotes. In Document Footnote Options I chose not to have "rule on" and in general there is no rule, except in a few pages. I am assuming this got somehow imported from Word. What worked in one case was deleting and redoing teh foonotes in that page. But in other pages it is not working.
Is there a way to fix this that is not redoing the whole chapter? I am hoping there is another way as this chpater is the longest one and has more than 200 footnotes.

Thanks in advance,

Andrea

[Mike Witherell]

Are you seeing a + sign on the paragraph styles with those footnotes indicating an attribute that has been directly applied? Or could it be an applied character style?

[Altibel]

Yes, there is a + on some of them. What i am also thinking is that this happens on very long footnotes that are splitted between pages, so may be a particular style?

[Altibel]

Mike, thanks a lot! When i apply the paragraph style and clean overrides my italics and everything stays but the obnoxious line goes away.
Thank you!

[Altibel]

Mike, sorry I was too enthusiastic. It seemed to have fixed it but it doesn't. Will keep trying to remake the footnotes.

[Altibel · Accepted solution]

Hi Mike, solved. I didn't realise the rule on can also be ormatted for splitted footnotes, as explained here:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/footnotes-in-split-colums-line-thickness/td-p/10764032?page=...
Thanks for your advice, it did solve one specific line.