Indesign adds an anoying space at the beginning of a line

Text supplied to me very very often has the combination:
<tab><bullet><tab>rest of text....
If I select <tab><bullet><tab> and hit delete, Indesign replaces it with a space.
It's very annoying because I then have to delete the space. Who needs a space at the beginning of a line like that!?
Preferences > Autocorrect > [  ] Enable Autocorrect is OFF, so there's no substitution going on (I think).
Can someone offer any insight as to what I need to adjust in my prefs to stop this behaviour.
I'm using Mac OS 10.9 and Indesign 2014
Many thanks,
K.

Theway  I choose to to fix this kind of problem is to Use Find and Replace. Under Find, insert the text or code that you want deleted. Under Replace, insert NOTHING, then select Change All. If you don'twant to replace all instances use the Find Next to keep the coding or use the Change/Find that will delete the code and find the next instance. I use this method all the time to get rid of the double-spaces that are frequently found in word processing files. You can probably do the same thing in your word processing program.
It may sound complicated but it's really quite easy.

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