There's a grey box on my background

I've noticed there's a grey box on my background every time I have Microsoft Word open.

I can't click on it or anything, so it's very weird. When I close Word, it disappears.

Is it bad or can I do something about it?

Every time I zoom out the grey box becomes to smaller grey transparent boxes.

I've tried to insert screenshots, but since they had to be maximum 2 MB, I had to crop them a lot.

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, 2 TBT3), macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

Posted on Sep 26, 2018 12:30 PM

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