[Toxaris]

In the current release it is difficult to remove the soft hyphens. Find a location where you know is one. In code view move your cursor around that spot. You will notice at one moment that your cursor will not move although you pressed the button. There is where the soft-hyphen is. Select it (shift and press arrow the other way) and copy it. With the S&R you can now past it and replace it by nothing.
For apostrophes, most use a single (curly) quote like ’