Hi Megan,
It's an interesting question you bring up. The easy and quick answer is that Acrobat is not a word processing document. However, as you have pointed out it can do editing — just limited though in how strong that editing can be. And that is probably part of the issue: Consider if you had a word that during creation had a hyphen at the end of the text line. And some global editing caused the line to shorted or lengthen and the hyphen would no longer be necessary. Acrobat doesn't really understand hyphens so you'd probably be stuck with a hyphen in the middle of a word (followed by a space) in the middle of a line. Fixing things one-at-a-time lets you find things like this as they occur.
As I was reading your question I had the idea of "Redacting" all periods and covering them with white. Curiously though what this ended up selecting was the first letter of every word that was followed by a period. (Don't ask, i do not know.) But even if this did work, it would have left the space for a period and if you wanted to close that space up, you couldn't.
I do not know the structure of your documents but one solution might be to export them into Word documents, delete the periods, then re-PDF them. [in Word, press Shift-Command/Control-h, place a period in the find and leave the replace empty.]
Definitely not slick but it might get the job done.
Let us know what you end up with as a solution.
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