I received many, many responses on this one.
Unfortunately I had already tried most of them, since in most cases they
would work.
Here were the most repeated suggestions:
>Have you tried using Edit> Value?
>Select the symbol then do a right-click and select edit value
>single select the whole note first, you should be able to double click
the embedded symbol and edit it.
>Just S-L-O-W down between the first and second click
However, I did find something that did work.
If I edited the note and removed the braces {}, and the text style number