Unmarked content - how to stop this madness

I have received a several forms in Word from a committee which are to be converted to PDF and made fillable and ADA compliant.  Accessibility report indicates none of the contents are contained in tree structure.  I find unmarked contents to tag them.  There are hundreds of unmarked "blank" areas and line segments which make up boxes and points where the line segments.  In the Content panel, the blank spots show up as Containers marked paragraphs with blank text.  The line segments show up as Path. 
I am trying to understand all of this.  Because all these things are in the Content panel, they must either be deleted or tagged. Correct?
So, is the first order of business going thru the hundreds of tags in the Content panel and cleaning them up?
Then check for unmarked stuff and tag it?
Then go into the Tags panel and make sure tags are semantically and logically ordered correctly?
I am spending several hours on making the forms compliant and I am required to turn these forms in minutes, so I could use some advice.
Thanks!

If I understand you correctly, it seems this is a corrupt file.
CT Dave is right, adding untagged content to a tagged PDF should have no impact on the existing structure. But documents do become corrupt and I have seen similar things to what you are describing happen in PDFs... it's very frustrating. Word to PDF conversion is not without its quirks. 
I don't think it is possible to mix / match LiveCycle and the Forms Editor -- once you work in LiveCycle you can't "go back".  And you said you manually created the form fields and that you are aware they need to be tagged.
The problem is, all of a sudden, all the lines and other "artifacts" in the document suddenly lost their artifact attribute, if you will, and are now showing up as untagged content. 
You could start over and hope for the best, or you could just click Find Unmarked Annotation a hundred times, select all the resulting non-form tags and convert them back to artifact. No guarantee either will work on this file, which may have other "invisible" internal flaws that will cause a repeat.  
If you choose to start over, I recommend trying to Repair the Acrobat Installation before you start. 
With Word files that repeatedly cause conversion errors, we sometimes find it necessary to Save as RTF, or even Save as Text and reformat the document.
NONE of these things should be necessary. However, given what you are saying I don't see where you have erred. You seem to have a corrupt document -- whether it went corrupt while you were working in Acrobat or the Word file and/or conversion introduced problems that manifested after you made the PDF and worked on it, I can't tell.  
In my experience this bug -- i.e., lines and other artifacts "dropping out" of the structure --  isn't something that happens often, but it can and does happen, particularly with complex documents. It may not be due to something you did -- and there is no guaranteed method I know of avoiding it. 
If anyone can recreate the problem please share what user error is doing this. 
Good luck!

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