smartphone’s – Text “smartphone’s” – Text Text – ‘smartphones” Text – Text “smartphones” Text

Issue – long white space after apostrophe and both sides of quotation marks.

Check if Open Office formatting inconsistent with WordPress.
Test – Paste into notepad to insure removal of formatting then paste plain text into WP (Ctrl+shift+V) just to be sure. result – null

Check if WP font formatting is issue
– :before and :after pseudo-element – result null
– inspect white space for cause. result null
– Font glitch in WP Try retyping punctuation after pasting text: smartphone’s – result null

Check if WP using smart quotes in formatting. result positive
Find interface to disable without editing code – result no option available.
Try: add_filter( ‘run_wptexturize’, ‘__return_false’ ); at the end of functions.php page in theme folder.
– results: undesirable causes issues with other .php files.
Try: remove_filter(‘the_content’, ‘wptexturize’) – Results in undesirably other reformatting.

Theme related? – tested 3 alternate themes – result null

WP Visual Editor vs. html – results – works only so long as you never revert to visual editor. Non feasible. Proves issue is WP editor.

Find and test workaround font plugin or additional css
body { font-family: Arial; } – result null

Plugins so far null. Fix issue but cause other undesirable formatting issues.