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Page numbers look trivial until you are numbering a merged production where part two must continue from part one, or where page 1 is a cover that should not be numbered.
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"1" is cleanest for internal documents. "Page 1 of 12" helps when pages get separated in printing. "1 / 12" is compact for reports.
Avoid starting at 0 unless you are matching an existing sequence — it confuses readers.
The tool numbers every page. To skip a cover, split off page 1, number the rest, then merge the cover back on top.
Alternatively use Headers & Footers, which supports tokens and can place numbers only where you want them.
For a document assembled from several PDFs, number each part with a starting value that continues the previous part — for example part one 1–40, part two starts at 41.
For legal productions, use Bates Numbering instead: it stamps one continuous zero-padded sequence across every file in one pass, with a prefix and suffix.
Numbers use a standard built-in font. For full typographic control, add the numbers with Headers & Footers or build the page in Create PDF.
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