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Bates numbering is a method of indexing legal documents for easy identification and retrieval. Each page of each document is assigned a unique Bates number that also indicates its relationship to other Bates-numbered documents. Bates numbers appear as headers or footers on the pages of each PDF in the batch.

Using Acrobat DC Pro, you can automatically apply Bates numbering as a header or footer to any document or to documents in a PDF Portfolio (If the PDF Portfolio contains non-PDF files, Acrobat converts the files to PDF and add Bates numbering). You can add custom prefixes and suffixes, as well as a date stamp.

Bates Numbering is a helpful method for organizing documents that need identification. Medical, legal, and commercial institutions use Bates Numbering to process a large amount of documents. Bates Numbers are added to PDF files in the header and footer to identify pages.

In the Add Header and Footer dialog box click Page Number and Date Format? and select the proper start page number. Under the Appearance Options put your cursor where you want the page number to appear then click Insert Bates Number. Set your preference.

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Important Bates stamps applied from other PDF programs or created with other tools may not be recognized by the program. You should visually confirm stamp removal. Select Edit > Insert > Bates Numbering > Remove to permanently remove Bates numbers from currently open files.

5 simple steps to add bates to file names on Windows: Select the Destination folder for output PDF files. Click File name inlay. Select Replace file names with starting and ending bates number option. In Bates numbers inlay set the numbers you need (the number of digits, the position on the page, prefix, suffix, etc.)

While the original Bates stamps only used numbers (up to a maximum of 9999), there is no set format for Bates numbering. It may be purely numeric or alphanumeric. Either way, Bates numbering is essentially a paper-based method, most useful for printed productions or page-based images.