Re: Blank pages

["Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL>]

>From:  Fabien Vais[SMTP:phantoms -at- ACCENT -dot- NET]
>>
>Like Kim Cramer, that phrase has also driven me up the wall on many
>occasions. I just don't understand why anyone thought of putting it on
>"blank" pages anyway? Did they think readers were too stupid to realize that
>the page was "intended" to be blank? How many of you, when you see a "blank"
>page in a manual, think that perhaps the author "intended" to put something
>there? Is it blank because there's nothing to put there? Is it blank for a
>purpose? Hmmm! I wonder...!
<<

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Actually, this does happen. Several years ago I bought a DTP program
called Publish It!  Came with a nice, thick spiral bound manual with
heavy, glossy pages. There were several UNintentional blank pages
scattered throughout the manual. The table of contents disappeared into
blank pages after about section 3; several chapters seemed to end in
mid-sentence followed by one or two blank pages; and I think there was
even a blank page in the index. The "blank" pages all had the
appropriate headers and footers, just nothing in between.

I called the company and they sent me a new, complete manual that had
all the words where they were supposed to be.


>Bev Parks
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