In Pages - How do I delete a page number from an imported Word doc?

I was sent an email with a six page WORD document attached. The attachment opened in Pages. Most of it is good, but there are page number characters in the wrong place. I cannot do anything to them. They seem to be outside the document text, off to the right side and only partially showing. Definitely not at the bottom where they should be seen. Going over them with the cursor does not allow me to select and delete these numbers. I thought they might be in footnote format and in the Inspector I unchecked Header and Footnote, which did nothing to help.

Also, I've tried without success to just go and add my own page numbers which might work, but then will need white-out or similar to remove the old page number.

Working in Text and PDF format did not work, either, and I do not have Word.

Unfortunately, I've spent hours on this and really hope somebody has a good suggestion on how to deal with these characters.

Thanks