Hi. After exporting to Pages, when I try to edit a sentence near an apostrophe the font changes and letters are deleted. I’m not even sure how to describe it properly. The file has gone to my editor who works in Word and she gets weird spaces around the apostrophes.
Any help gratefully received.
Does your project contain any bidirectional text? Like LTR and RTL languages mixed. If not on purpose, it could have seeped in via copy-and-paste from another source.
Although Scrivener would handle it in the same way you describe (e.g. “deleting backwards”), and I reckon you already checked that. 
Hard to tell what’s going on there. Can you isolate the problem to a small section, let’s say paragraph- or even sentence-sized?
What you could try before anything else: Edit → Text Tidying → Zap Gremlins.
Hi, thanks so much for getting back to me. It’s all in English, but I have realised its changing it from Times New Roman to Arial Unicode MS for the text I add in after deleting something…
The weird stuff also happens in Scrivener, or only in the compiled documents (and what is “it”, that’s changing the font – Scrivener, Pages, Word)? Give me a little more to work with. Did you try the “Zap Gremlins” tool?
Also you mention exporting to Pages, which isn’t a thing Scrivener can do. Does that mean compiling (not exporting) to Word DOCX format and then opening it in Pages? If so, have you tried opening it in something other than Pages, like Word itself or LibreOffice, to see if it’s not some weird Pages bug?
I suppose you could also drop the file back into your binder and see if the problem occurs there (but not in the original text I presume). That might not say much in the negative though—i.e. if it works fine in, out and back into Scrivener, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s “okay”, just that Scrivener “understands itself”. If it does end up weird on import, and the original in the editor is fine, that could be more interesting.
Was the text area where this happens originally typed by you in Scrivener or was it by any chance pasted into Scrivener from somewhere else, like maybe a quote you pulled off a webpage somewhere.
If the latter, it is very likely there are invisible characters in your text. Using Zap Gremlins in Scriv, as suggested, should then help.
As a general rule, when pasting stuff from websites (or anywhere else really), it is usually best to Paste and Match Style, instead of plain Paste.
Hi, only in the compiled doc. I handwrite, then type up in Pages, then cut and paste into Scrivener where I do all of the editing work. I then do a compile into a .docx and my agent works on it in Word. I then get it back, but at this point can’t put it back into Scriv (unfortunately) becuase of all the comments and tracked changed. It’s at this last state I have the problems, though my agent says she has weird spacing issues happen with the apostrophe’s - it all sounds like a lot of work now I’ve typed out the wordflow!!
I didn’t try the Zap Gremlins because the doc is in Pages now (don’t think they do that??).
I compile it to docx and then open it in pages - thanks for replying 
Thanks for advice, I’ll definitely have a go at Zapping Gremlins on my next manuscript before I compile it
I’d recommend working through step by step to see exactly where the problem appears. If the document is fine as it emerges from Scrivener, then it probably is not a Scrivener issue.
It sounds like the trouble may be being introduced when the Word file gets into the hands of your agent!
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BTW, I think I have seen this phenomenon. I would describe it this way: your insertion point seems to be in one place, but the “action point” is elsewhere (a few characters off) when you, for example, hit the delete key.
I have an author in a writing group, and something like this shows up in the docx files she sends — I have to go through and edit out all these black-hole areas in the text. I am always in a typesetting rush when I get these things, so I have never chased down what is going on.
I am pretty sure this author is not a Scrivener user, so if we are indeed seeing the same phenomenon, it is not coming from Scriv.