How do I remove a two leg backward p from my blank word page

[NEWHEART]

New at this and not very knoledgable with Micro Word 03.
My blank page has two legged backward P that follows ahead of the cursor.
What is it and how do I remove it?

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

That's a paragraph mark--and it's a useful piece of information. See if this
article by Suzanne Barnhill and Dave Rado sheds some light:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm