Why do I get a space between apostrophe in PowerPoint?

I'm using PowerPoint 2013 on a Windows 8 computer. Why do I always get a space between the apostrophe and the letter S when I type it out in stylized letters? How can I resolve this issue?

Thank you.

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It is an issue in the font, Adobe Gothic, you're using (acts the same on my PP 2016 on Windows 10), that it leaves a big space after the apostrophe. You cannot really do much to fix the font.

So easiest would be just to use a different font.

However, if you do like that font and wanna use it I realized that the normal apostrophe (you can copy it from here ', it is Unicode 0027) doesn't have this problem, it is only the smart quote (or rather "right single quotation mark" Unicode 2019, this one ’) that Office programs replace the apostrophe automatically. So you can disable "Smart Quotes" (guide here) and it would be good, or you can find and replace this ’ with this '.

This is probably a kerning issue with the font you're using, or an invisible character from copy-pasting from a non-plaintext source. Try this : Make a new slide, make a new text box, manually type out the text you want, and see if the behavior happens again.

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