Thanks for the responses - I'm just back from the long UK holiday weekend. It had never occurred to me that having all master pages defined in a single template (I inherited it some years ago and have added to it occasionally, but have never had to set a template up from scratch) could be disadvantageous so it was interesting to look at it in that light. I see that if I separated the various custom master pages into appropriate templates, defining the standard Left and Right pages in each template accordingly, I would get Apply Master Pages to work. Rick also pointed out about the benefit of this approach regarding deletion of blank master pages on save and correct application of master pages for new content.
And yet, my instinct is still to keep the master pages together - resistance to change, I suppose, and the knowledge that there is just a single template to maintain. Coincidentally, this Apply Master Pages issue arose in the first place because I used to have a separate template for landscape chapters, but now I need to cater for the possibility of mixed portrait and landscape pages in the same chapter, so I thought it would be sensible to bring the landscape pages into the standard template and save having to think about separate templates, and then I thought that whilst I was at it I'd take a look at Apply Master Pages. Turns out perhaps I should have been heading the other way all along! I'll mull over all this for the future rather than leap in straight away with a few new templates as it wasn't a big deal to do the master pages manually. But I now know more about custom master pages which is really useful, so thank you. Alexandra Wilowska _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.