[libreoffice-users] Unwanted Text Boxes all over the document

I'm not sure what I did or what is misconfigured but I am unable to back it out.

I entered a fairly long change in an existing document in plain text and then formatted it
afterwards.  At one point it seemed logical to emphasize what I was saying by putting the text in a
text box which I have done many times before in previous versions of LO.  This time I was unable to
get the text box to stay while I pasted the text so I Googled how and found that I had to hit a
character before I placed the cursor in the box.  So I hit an 'X' and the box stayed but I was
unable to paste into it.  Finally ended up typing everything inside.  I set the border to right
shadow and everything seemed as expected.

BUT:

There are many (dozens) of text boxes now spread though the document and I don't know how to get rid
of them.  The preference seems to be for bulleted lists, of which there are many, to have each list
item boxed but some paragraphs have been boxed too, sort of randomly.  

Some boxes are supposed to be there and were in the original that I was editing but most are not
required at all.  Edit|Undo doesn't get rid of them and now I have saved the document so as not to
lose the updates so I can't try that again.  

The problem here is that I am updating a chapter of a book and I could pull it in from the previous
edition but then I would have to find and retype all the changes and there is no reference for that.
The chapter is 37 pages long and contains embedded graphics so I have to be careful what I change.
In the end I would still need to insert the text box.

To add insult to injury I'm on a deadline to get the next edition out.

Has anyone any idea what might have happened?  Better yet how can I unbox all the previously
existing  text without losing the text in the boxes?  It is possible that while typing I
accidentally hit a control key but if so I don't know which.

Info:   LO 24.8.6.2 (X86_64)
        Fedora 41 
Document is in .odt format but has been edited/converted many times in other word processors
starting with Word Perfect 5!

Any suggestions very much appreciated!

John
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