Creating outlines to color the dot on letter "i"

I need to color the dot on the letter "i." In order to do this, I converted the text to outlines but was unable to ungroup the dot from the stem part of the letter "i." They appear to be ungroupable. Is this really so?
There are other times that I wish to create outlines of text and ungroup the letters to apply different effects.
Is all of this doable only in Illustrator, or is there a way to do it in InDesign? I am hoping for the latter. It would be a great timesaver.
many thanks!

It differs from the Illustrator approach: InDesign creates a single path, rather than a group of paths with one compound path per character. Selecting "Release Compound Path" in the Path sub-menu at the bottom of the Object menu does the trick.
The difference with the Illustrator way is visible if you do this on complicated characters, such as an "o"; its innards will come loose.
Just for the letter 'i', you could follow another approach, that is, if your font allows it. Insert a dotless 'i', followed by a dot in the correct color, and move them together with kerning. They will print better, and will look
i much
better on screen and in PDFs.

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