Adding saved form fields when page count changes

It appears that there isn't a way inside of EchoSign to apply a set of forms fields that has been saved to the templates if the new version of the form has a page added or deleted.
It seems like it would either require the form fields to be edited outside of EchoSign or be recreated from scratch if the form adds or removes a page when it is updated.
I would appreciate any insight or confirmation.

The situation would be thus:
The document for Form Z is created in a program such as Word and has several pages. The Word document is uploaded to EchoSign. This converts the Word Doc to a pdf, and then the form fields added in EchoSign. Then that EchoSign form is saved as a template (both document and form fields) in the Library.
Now, the client who created the Word document comes back a year later with a revised version of the Word Doc that has one fewer page. If that new Doc is uploaded to EchoSign, the form fields from the first version of the form cannot be imported and applied to the new version because the number of pages in the new document doesn't match the number of pages in the old document.
This appears to be similar to LiveCycle, where you cannot replace the background pdf unless the new file has the same number of pages as the old pdf.
Unfortunately, it is quite common for these larger and more complex forms to add or delete pages when they are revised, and those are exactly the forms that one would want to avoid rebuilding from scratch.

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