Multiple text boxes on a page

Hi there, I've been given a PDF and have to edit some of the text.  It appears however each line of the text is in a separate text box.  Therefore if I add a lot of text to one line I end up having to move each text box down to accomodate the new size of the box above.
Is there any way to merge the text boxes?  Or another easy way to have everything automatically move to adjust to the size of the boxes?

PDF files are not suitable for this kind of editing. You need to edit the
original file format (Word, InDesign, whatever) and then generate a new
PDF. Trying to do this kind of task in the PDF file will cost you a LOT of
time, effort and headaches...

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