How to redirect a page that does not exist

Hello everyone. Thanks for the feedback so far.
I am editing an old site and there are going to be some pages that do not exist anymore.
Is there a way to have an automatic redirect so that if any user types in ANY page that does not exist sitewide, they can be directed to another main redirection page which displays a message and then to the main page again?
The current site is littered with empty pages with a redirect link on each at the moment which does not look good and it's awful to maintain as these non-meaningful filenames the original developer has used are no help at all.
Thank you in advance for all feedback
Terry

What is the web address of the old site?
If it's on a Linux server then you can use .htaccess rewrites to automate much of the redirection heavy lifting
http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/85/Using+.htaccess+rewrite+rules#gs
https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/htaccess_redirect

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