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February 6, 2025
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How to automatically add page numbers on the contents page for a combined pdf

  • February 6, 2025
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I'm combining multiple documents for board papers all year round and I was wondering if there is a trick to adding page numbers automatically to my Agenda/ table of contents pages once combined in Adobe pro?

Often the pdfs I'm creating are over 100 pages and I manually trawl through the combined files typing on the content page the page number that each attachment is on but having a way to automatically do this would be life changing.

i.e Content Page will look like the below

Item 1                        p. 2

Item 2                       p. 10

Item 3                       p. 25

Item 4                       p. 30

Item 5                       p. 32

Item 6                       p. 35

Item 7                       p. 43

Item 8                       p. 50

 

Correct answer try67

No, you can't update those automatically in Acrobat,  but if your files contains bookmarks then you can generate a Table of Contents from them using a script.

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try67
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Community Expert
February 6, 2025

There's a built-in option to do that in the Add Header and Footer tool.

Participant
February 6, 2025

That's obviously what I'm already doing - I'm talking about the contents pages that tell people where to find each document.

try67
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try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
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February 7, 2025

No, you can't update those automatically in Acrobat,  but if your files contains bookmarks then you can generate a Table of Contents from them using a script.