Bates Numbering

Step by step

How To Apply Bates Numbering

Give every page a unique stamp — an exhibit mark plus a padded case number — with counters that pick up exactly where you need them.

1. 1

   Upload your PDF

   Drop in a document and the first page appears with the stamp drawn across its top — “Exhibit 1 Case XYZ 000001”, live on the sheet. Files are deleted after 2 hours.

   
2. 2

   Pick a style, or build one

   The style list covers the classics — Exhibit marks, case numbers, or bare padded numbers running 1 to 6 digits. Prefer your own? The Customize Style composer mixes fixed text with the live counters: file number, bates number, and the page for the “and page” styles. Preview lists the whole run — File 1, Page 1 right through File 10, Page 1 — and updates as you type.

   
3. 3

   Place it, continue the count, stamp

   Location on Page puts the stamp in any of the six header or footer slots, and the Continue-from pair opens the sequence and the file counter wherever this run picks up — the ? bubbles explain both. Behind More options: font, size up to 60, colour, and custom result names.

   

   Press Bates stamp and the document comes back stamped, page after page counting on.

   

• Ready-made styles

  Exhibit marks, case numbers or bare padded numbers — 1 to 6 digits.

• Build your own

  The composer mixes fixed text with the file, bates and page counters.

• Continue from anywhere

  Bates sequence and file counter both take a starting number.

• Room to spare

  Increase margins scales the page content down so the stamp never sits on your text.

• Font to colour

  Times or Helvetica, sizes 6 to 60, in any colour — tucked into More options.

• Private by default

  No account, no watermark — and every file is automatically deleted after 2 hours.