T.W. Smith wrote: > A better trick that was told to me on the Adobe U2U forums, by I believe > Sheila Carlisle or maybe Peter Gold, several years ago was this: > > Use master page mappings. > > Create a new left master page. Call it "LeftAllTheTime" or something. Set it > up so that it is always used by pages that contain text, such as map it to > headings, body text, graphics anchors, etc. > > Redefine the Left master page to contain only the "Page Left Blank" text. > > Thus, when you update your document master page mappings, any page with real > text or graphics (etc.) uses the "LeftAllTheTime" master page. If there is > no such text, and the page count is made even, the Left master page will be > used by FrameMaker by default and will contain the correct text. If you > later add text, and the make-even page goes away, so too your "Page Left > Blank" text goes away. > > This process is pretty automatic and error free.
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