It would be easier to diagnose the issue if you attached a doc but I think you are looking at the placeholder paragraphs that indicate footnote markers are in the document and you haven't populated the footnotes themselves.

Look at the body of the document to see if there is more than one footnote indicator. If you doubleclick the number down in the footnote area, your cursor should jump into the body of the document to where that footnote reference is sitting. If you delete that footnote reference, the locked paragraph in the footnote area will be removed.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia