Extra space after apostrophe

I was able to fix this problem by changing the type from Adobe Gothic Std B (which I was using only because it differentiated what I was typing form surrounding text) to Times Roman--problem solved,  Even though the Adobe type appears on the Word list of fonts, it created this problem,

Here's a new answer.  I went into File Options Proofing AutoCorrect Options and under AutoFormat, Replace:  I unchecked "Straight quotes" with  "smart quotes".  This did remove the space, but it also changed the look of the apostrophe.  I'm not sure that I will be able to leave this unchecked, but for now it worked. 

It was also odd because initially the smart quote I was getting was the 'close' single quote, even though I had not used an open single quote in the text.  I should also say that this was inside a text box, if that makes a difference.

EDIT AFTER POSTING:

I had not realized there were multiple pages concerning this question. After posting this request, I read the post above about setting the font. I am absolutely certain that I had done that, since I was looking at Times New Roman 11-point, just as I wanted, but something seems to have gone haywire at some point. (Re-edit: as it turns out, I probably had not set the font; it was just coincidence that I wanted TimesNewRoman and the PDF text actually appeared in that font in Word, which is unusual.)

I highlighted the entire text and selected Times New Roman, and voilà, my random punctuation problem has disappeared. Thanks to the person who posted that.

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Has anyone actually figured this out?

I have used Word for many years. Suddenly today, in one particular file, this nonsense has started.

The language is set to EN(US) (my default language setting is EN(CA)). I have set the language multiple times for the entire document (highlight by CTRL-A, select language). At all points in the doc, the language shown in the status bar is EN(US).

With both quotation marks (") and apostrophes ('), Word is inserting double spaces before the opening one and after the closing one. The spaces can't be deleted; the punctuation mark and two spaces are treated as a single unit when I try to delete the spaces.

Example:

I said “I don’t want this”.

looks like

I said   “I don’  t want this”  .

The text in the file was copied from a French-language PDF (not converted, just copied using the Foxit copy function), so that I can translate it using the typeover function. I do this all the time, and have never had such idiocy result.

I've tried using Autocorrect and Autoformat to find a solution, and there is none.

This is not a function of French punctuation. In French, a space is inserted before a colon (:) and before a quotation mark (?), and sometimes, if an author is feeling particularly pretentious, before a semi-colon (;). If this had to do with French, I would be getting French quotation marks with one space after the opening and one space before the closing mark, like so:

« not this »

That is not what's happening. I have no idea what language might want two spaces after/before a standard quotation mark or apostrophe. None, I think.

Anybody?? Thanks.

I have this same problem, but only using rotated text. If I use an apostrophe, Word automatically makes the spacing between the apostrophe and the next character extremely wide (about the width of a double space). When the text is horizontal, the spacing issue goes away, but if I rotate 90 degrees (the way I want it), the wide spacing appears. Of course I could use straight quotes instead as a workaround, but that's not what I want. Seems like a bug to me.

I'm using Word 2013, font is TNR (although problem remains if I change font to Arial or Calibri or anything else), and language is set to U.S. English.