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Weird Word Layout Issue : Annoying Grey rectangle on the right
IrvinT Your screen shot shows that the grey area is a rectangle drawing object anchored in the page header, so it appears on every page. The little black dots on the corners and sides of the rectangle are the distinctive indications of an object.
To remove it, first double-click in the header area to open it for editing. Then you can click on the rectangle to select it, and press the Delete key.
If the text doesn't expand to fill the space between the margins, check the Paragraph settings for a non-zero right indent value, first in the style applied to the text and then in the Paragraph properties of the individual paragraphs.
IrvinT This grey window thing also happens if you have left track changes on in a word document, and have show markup ticked.
Go to the review pane, accept all changes in document and turn track changes off.
Just to be sure, turn show all markup to show no markup.
This was driving me crazy too.
Your observation is reasonable because the Markup area would look similar to the graphical object shown in the OP's screen shot. However, note that the OP confirmed Jay's response to be the solution (Accepted Answer).