Hide Footer on Even Page Preceeding First Page of Chapter on Odd Page

Question

Hi,I am creating with the following components (in the following order): Title Page, Table of Contents, Introduction (Front Matter), Chapters 1-5. Ideally I would like the components to each start on a right odd page. I have applied the right master page for each first page, however, in some cases, the total number of pages for a preceeding component is odd, which is leaving/adding a blank last page. Is there a way for the preceeding even page (if its blank) to have its footer hidden? Right now it is blank but the footer still indicates the page number and I would like that to be gone. Or do I have to create a special master page?Thanks!

Arnis Gubins · Answer

If this is a two-sided document set, then FM has to insert something between files that end on an odd/right page and are required to start on an odd/right page, so it must add a left/even page at the end of the previous file. It will use the default Left Master page for this.

You could create an automatic workaround for this by using the Master Page mapping table. Create a new Left master page (call it something like Left_std) from your original Left master. Then modify the Left page so that it has what you want, i.e. nothing. Then set up the Master Page mapping table to apply the Left_std page to all of the paratags that may fall on the left side (usually, just the body and few heading tags will suffice) and apply the mapping. The documents should look exactly like before. However, if you change content and update, then whenever you have an odd/odd situation between files, FM will insert the (blank) Left master page. [This technique is also used for automating the "This page is intentionally left blank" scenario]

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