Hi, cheech. The only thing I can suggest is, along the lines of the previous response, is to modify the Footnote Text style to have a left tab set for whatever you wish, say, 0.3", and when type your footnote text, just start with a tab.

I tried recording a macro to replace all space+tabs with tabs, but it didn't work. Someone who can write VBA codde may be able to create one for you.

Best,
Ulodesk