How do i reduce the minimum height of footnotes?

bkitko said: "…Even if I set align to grid to "none" the footnote "frames" do not shrink."

Ok. Then, I think, we need a sample document to assist here.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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Same file, same settings but with snap to baseline grid enabled:

My suggestion: take the footnotes off the grid, leave body on the grid.

Working with the baseline grid always involves compromise. If you want everything to snap to the grid, you're not going have as much control over the spacing as you might like. What's great about InDesign is that you can have some paragraphs on the grid and some paragraphs off the grid.

~Barb

Hi bkitko,

also check, if the baseline of the footnote text is forced to the document's baseline grid with feature "Align To Baseline".

From my German InDesign where all the footnote text is aligned to the baseline of the document; see icon in the Paragraph panel at the bottom of the panel:

This feature turned off:

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out. In addition to Barb's amazing response, I'd recommend checking out help article https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/footnotes.html for more details about using foornotes.
Hope it helps.

Regards,

Ashutosh

I'm not seeing that:

You can see my type attibutes above (and I'm using auto-leading so it is increasing/decreasing with the type size). Here are my Footnote Layout settings:

~Barb