Page Numbers

Understanding page numbers

When you would use it

• —Numbering a merged bundle of exhibits for a legal filing.
• —Adding folios to a scanned manuscript before circulating it for review.
• —Preparing a printed report where readers must reference specific pages.
• —Numbering a compiled appendix that starts at a page other than one.

Practical tips

• Leave the first page unnumbered when it is a cover — start the count on page two.
• Bottom-centre is the safest position: it rarely collides with existing headers or scan artefacts.
• Number after all merging, splitting and reordering is finished, otherwise the sequence will not match.

Troubleshooting

Numbers overlap existing content

Switch position or increase the margin so the stamp sits in clear space.

Numbers are missing on scanned pages

They are drawn on top of the page; if the scan image covers the whole sheet, choose a position inside the visible margin.