Hello! First post ever, ha!

. I have an estimated 200 page thesis - all in one MS Word document. The page numbers are at the bottom and have three dots above the number (I also have roman numerals at the beginning, so I think I have what is called Section breaks, etc, can't really remember what I did x months ago to get the pagination to work). Anyway, I want these faint little three dots hovering over my page numbers to go away but can't figure out what they are? And don't want to mess up the pagination either, yikes! Any help or thoughts is greatly appreciated!