Re: Blank pages

[Fabien Vais <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...!

Generally, the most common reason for having a "blank" page is at the end of
a chapter, to make sure the first page of the following chapter starts on a
right-hand page. However, I have one question: do you good folks put a
header and/or a footer on these "blank" pages, or are they truly BLANK, or
else do you put (perhaps because of corporate constraints) that horrible
phrase "This page intentionally left blank."?

Fabien Vais
phantoms -at- accent -dot- net
Independent Consultant
(Specialized in long-distance contracts)

At 08:10 AM 6/11/97 -0700, you wrote:
>A previous post from Ann Mackenzie mentioned the ever-popular sentence
>"This page intentionally left blank."  I *strongly dislike* this
>sentence because, once you've put it on the page, the page ISN'T BLANK
>ANYMORE (deep breath!!!).
>
>Anyway, for years now I've used the phrase "This page for your notes."
>on pages at the end of a chapter.  Anybody else have any other creative
>ideas for replacements?
>
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>kcramer -at- ncslink -dot- com
>Sr. Information Developer
>NCS Education, Mesa AZ
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