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A unique numeric or alphanumeric identifier attached to individual documents and pages to make each document and page easily identifiable and retrievable. Bates numbers are used in the legal, medical, and business fields.

Bates Numbering (or Bates Stamping) assigns unique identifiers to each page in a collection of documents. It's a way to index document contents so they're easier to find later.Clerks and other document managers used to have to apply Bates Numbers by hand a tedious and time-consuming process.

Paralegals can apply Bates stamping to a single document or a complete set of documents by creating custom profiles for stamping information into headers and footers. Access the Add Bates Numbers dialog box, and browse files to select all files, in order, to which you'd like to include in the stamping session.

Bates stamping can be used to mark and identify images with copyrights by putting a company name, logo and/or legal copyright on them. This process provides identification, protection, and automatic consecutive numbering of the images.

Bates Numbers are perceived as digital reference points used to uniquely identify and label each page in a set of documents.This is accomplished by assigning specific identifiers (numeric or combination of letters and numbers) such as case ID numbers, dates or company names to each PDF page.

To add a Bates Number:Select Edit > Insert > Bates Numbering and select Add from the drop-down list to open the Add Bates Numbers dialog box.Click Add Files.Click Output to display the Add Bates Numbers - Output Rules dialog box.Click OK in the Add Bates Numbers dialog box to call the Header and Footer dialog box.More items...

The short answer is no - legal professionals still use bates numbering - but documents and discoverable information have become overwhelmingly electronic. One thing to keep in mind is that native document productions usually can not include a physical bates stamp without first being imaged.