excess text locked in Footer in Word – unremovable

In a Word doc in OS X I have managed to create text that cannot be removed from an even page footer in the same document. I have tried a restart – new docs are ok.

delete, fwd delete & cut n paste all fail.
Wierdly, I can edit the font, so I’m looking at using white text as a get around at the moment.
any ideas?

see the “g” in footer.jpg
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e320/leonb-c/footerg.jpg

ta
Leon