can't delete one half of a word field bracket

[LizW]

I have a document with a footer that has a right bracket that appears to have
once been a part of a set of field brackets. The other one is not there and
we can not, no matter what we try, delete it.

We've tried deleting, cutting, clearing formatting, inserting another blank
field, editing fields, everything with the f9 key and alt, control etc.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This is an indication of a corrupt document. If you have Word 2003, use the
Open and Repair option in the File Open dialog. For other versions, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm