7.0.2 - Publishing Formatting Issues from DNG

1 - Symbols cause font type and size to change mid paragraph...example below, but applies to any symbol, like "degree", etc. 

DNG text:

Published text (font before is Calibri size 9, font after the symbol is arial size 10). 

2 - Additional spaces at the beginning of new lines...

DNG text:

Published text:

I'm using a custom template for publishing which has no styles applied to the paragraph or text elements. 

I'm using a custom word stylesheet which if I manually type a "Normal Style" paragraph, does not result in these formatting issues, so I'm pretty sure it's not the styles in the style sheet causing it, unless I'm missing a specific parameter? The spaces in the document are actual spaces (not just indents in the paragraph). I can hit back space and delete the paragraph manually, but obviously can't do this on every paragraph in a document.