Extra space after apostrophe

There isn't a language option in the status bar.  But I selected the entire text and then found language under tools. I selected English (US), but it's still putting a space in after the apostrophe.  This is Microsoft Word 2011 for mac.

Hi Straightarrow372. Did you read through the thread? I neglected to do that when I first posted ...

It turns out the problem is not language, it is font. See my message about 3 posts above yours (the part that starts "EDIT AFTER POSTING:"). The simple fix is what I ultimately figured out there, from reading the thread:

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.

Try that.

Highlight the entire text and select the font in Word that you want.

It should work.

Simple fix for an apparently unexplained problem.

Every time I type an apostrophe " ' " Word adds an extra space before the next letter.

For example, If I type don't, Word makes it come out Don' t 

Needless to say, this is annoying.  Does anyone have an idea how to make this problem go away?

Thnx

I'm getting extremely tired of Microsoft's suggested updates, automatic updates or their highly reccomended updates, downloads, that "CREATE" issues with already working products. Especially before their "NEW" products come out. I downloaded updates that were reccomended by MS as fix's for problems to come or fix's for problems I never encoutered. Each time I downloaded these fix's, I would within a day or two have problems with programs like Outlook or Excel. When I would eventually have to call MS for support, I was "directed" to a pay per use product or they would back date my computer to a saved date prior to this problem and magicly my program worked as it did prior to the update. Soon after I was used to everything working normally again, a new update would appear MS would assure me it was OK to download again but it would create the previous problems that caused the back date restore and add a few problems.

I have witnessed and documented this trend since 1998 and it coinsided with a new operating product or a new verssion of say Outlook or Explorer and it occurd like clock work.

Almost by magic, a new, improved Win product would appear. A soon as I bought and installed the "NEW" product, about 50% or so of my drivers and programs started having issues. After chasing down new drivers, buying updated outlooks or office programs, I would be made whole again.

Any idea as to how much money we all paid and most likely will pay for this "FIX" called, oooh... WIN-8 Hundreds from each of us and what will we get for this new product?

The fix to what MS basicly created with their RECCOMENDED downloads/updates and oooh...if you buy some new product, you may see or hear something that doesn't matter and never did, until MS told you that you needed to.

 In my opinion, since windows 98, each of the following were basicly fix's for the product before it. 2000, millenium edition, XP, Vista, Win-7 and now Win-8 are nothing more than GLORIFIED PATCHES "Fix's" that Microsoft decided, were too expensive to support any longer or repair without us paying for it.

Personally, I have not seen any (Specific) National or Global advertising that would sugest or imply any reason to purchase this product. 

Please comment, especially if you are a MS program designer, or you work for one of MS's many groups that do nothing but create patented (bots/programs) to not only find these problems but to reverse engineer them and patent them. Why?

If you are typing in French, then you will not be using the apostrophe for contractions such as "don't" or for possessives, and very likely the default spacing is correct.

If you are typing in English and have that language applied to the text and are still having the problem, then there is something else going on.

Note that the language may change at the insertion point, unless you turn off the "Detect language automatically" option in the Language dialog box. (To display the dialog box in Word 2007/2010, click the Review tab, and then click the Set Language button.)

If the above is not the issue, you should treat your document as corrupt. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm.