Text in Writer disappears when Apply Autocorrect to Remove Blank Paragraphs

This has been working beautifully, but yesterday I started having issues with it deleting all my text. I removed most of the other defaulted options, and it worked on the third or fourth try, but today it is consistently just removing my texts. It doesn’t touch the header, but it blanks out everything else. TBC, I go to Tools - AutoCorrect - …Options, and click Remove Blank Paragraphs; then I go back to Tools – AutoCorrect – Apply. On the bottom the screen the progress bar looks likes the feature is working, but then the text is gone. I’ve tried copying the text to another document. Doesn’t work there either. I’m at a loss and this book is too long for me to remove blank paragraphs one by one, so please HELP.
Version: 7.6.4.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: e19e193f88cd6c0525a17fb7a176ed8e6a3e2aa1
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

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