Word doc to Pages to Word doc conversion problems

I imported a word doc into pages on my iphone.
I edited the document on my phone, then exported it back to word format, emailed it to myself and opened it on my macbook in word again.
Now there are some weird spell check errors happening (eg it doesn't like the word 'you' and suggests all kind of rubbish) and the formatting of the apostrophes is all wrong.
Is there a quick fix for this? My document is 102,000 words long, I don't like the idea of having to redo the apostrophes one by one...

I'd recommend you use Word for Mac for such stuff.
Before buying that, you could try the free Open/LibreOffice and see if the result is satisfactory.
If you already have Pages on your machine, just do File > Open and see how it looks and works.

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