A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
Your screen shot looks like a footnote.
See if the footnote separator includes an extra paragraph mark. In that case, you can remove the para mark by backspacing.
To access the footnote separator for editing, switch to Draft view (View > Draft). Then click Show Notes in the Footnotes group on the References tab. In the footnotes pane, choose "Footnote separator."