Page Numbers/Bates Numbering

[klue760]

Hello all, 

I need some help with the heading&footer/bates numbering feature that adobe acrobat pro offers.

I work in a legal office and we submit documents to a court electronically. 95% of the time, each court submissed needs to be paginated. We used to paginate by hand, but it got very annoying when we had bigger submissions that were 500 pages or more. Many of these submissions have "exhibit/tab" cover pages. We aren't supposed to add page numbers to these cover pages. I was wondering if there was a way to "skip" the page numbers on those pages so it isn't counted as a page number?

A court submission should be like this:

Exhibit A

Evidence (page 1)

Evidence (Page 2)

Exhibit B

Evidence (page 3)

Evidence (page 4)

The issue is when I use the bates number/Header&footer feature it'll add the page numbers to the "Exhibits" pages so it will look like this:

Exhibit A (Page 1)

Evidence (Page 2)

Evidence (Page 3)

Exhibit B (Page 4)

Evidence (Page 5)

Evidence (Page 6).

Is there any way I could "skip" over the "exhibit" cover pages without counting it as a page? I've searched all over the adobe community forum and reddit, but I can't seem to find anything that works. If I delete the page number from the cover sheets,  it doesn't do anything to shift the numbers over. 

Please let me know! I appreciate all the advice or help I could get. Thank you all!!

[try67]

I don't think there's a way to do that with the built-in features of Acrobat, but it's very likely it could be possible using a script. It could either detect those pages automatically (although doing that with such large files will be tricky), or it could use some markers you would have to set up for it, such as bookmarks or comments. You would only need to make the first and last pages of each section, of course, not all of them.

If you're interested in hiring a professional to create such a tool for you, feel free to contact me privately by clicking my user-name and then on the "Message" button.

[Tariq Ahmad Dar]

Hi @klue760, 

As @try67 mentioned, it is not exactly how it can be arranged. However, you can define the page range option while adding page numbers, etc. Please check the screenshot attached. Let us know if you have further questions. 

Bates Numbering 

~Tariq