Oh I am aware that YOU would deal with it; I wanted to make sure anyone else reading this would (hopefully) understand that it may have to be dealt with.

Also as a comment that while it is possible to make the empty paragraphs become invisible again, and that apparently the storyrange is gone, IF there is content in nonvisible headerfooter objects (FirstPage or OddEven) - something that is exremely useful to do in some document structures - then in fact the storyrange is NOT gone.