All is well. Case closed. The problem was that I manually typed in the letter A when I should have selected a Special Character>Markers>Current Page Number that inserted its special character that appears as the letter A.
In retrospect, my "complex" problems turned out to be pilot error. I deeply appreciate your patience and kindness as well as your great expertise. Best regards.
I do have one comment. This version of Jive is really tough to navigate once a question reaches more than two pages old. I was out of the office nearly all day yesterday after my previous post to you. It was really tough finding your very helpful reply because my question was old enough to be on page 3 or 4. Thank goodness for the email notification. This has been a hard-earned Correct Answer for you.