How to Mass-Resize Text Boxes

Hello,
I'm working with a PDF document with a great deal of text boxes. I have found no way to resize many text boxes at once. I was thinking there'd be a way to:
1) Select all text boxes
2) Right-click or do something else to open the "Properties" dialog box
3) Within the "Properties" dialog box, find "Size"
4) Change the "Size" height and width by numbers
5) Press OK and voila, all the text box sizes change
I surely hope this is possible because using the mouse to drag and resize is highly inefficient.
Thank you in advance.

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