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I'll explain how to add Bates numbers to a collection of PDF documents in a library of folders in Windows Explorer and I'll use Adobe Acrobat Pro to apply the Bates numbers so Bates numbers in this case are going to be sequential numbers that run through all of the documents in the library of documents starting at 1 and going to the last page and not restarting the numbering at the beginning of each new document so having a unique number on every page is often useful if you want to refer to the document in a discussion for example in court in the legal context so the first thing you'll want to do is ensure that your library contains only PDF documents so you could check that by doing a search for not PDF and only folders should come up if any other documents come up that aren't PDF documents you should consider converting those to PDF documents before proceeding you then take the path of the folder open up Adobe pro go to tools scroll down to the stamp tool click on bates numbering and then click on add then click the add files drop-down list and we'll add a folder because we want to Beit stamp all of the documents in the folder so you just come into the folder field over here go ctrl V to paste your path from the clipboard into the field click OK and it will then generate the PDF document list into the window over here we'll make a output file because ultimately we'll want to import the bates numbers into an Excel spreadsheet so that we can have the Bates numbers listed alongside that other document information so I'll click create log file and I know that the log files gonna be saved on the desktop click OK I'll then click this OK button over here to open up the Bates number properties window I'll click in the top box over here for write header text because I want to insert my Bates numbers in the top right I'll then click insert Bates number I'll make a prefix of P assuming I'm acting for the plaintiff in this legal dispute I'll click OK I will increase the size the Bates numbers 212 to make them a bit more readable and I'm also gonna put them a little closer to the edge of the page just so that they're not very likely to obscure important text I can then click the ok' button and it'll proceed with the bate stamping process in this case there's 84 files in the library of folders so at the end of the process it'll display a message hopefully saying that all 84 have been stamped yes they have so click OK I can then shut that down and if we now go into one of these folders and open up that one of the documents we should see that in the top right hand corner it's got the bates number shown and those will be applied sequentially through the entire set of documents so the next step is to import those bates numbers into an Excel spreadsheet that lists all of the documents I did previously make a video that explains the process for creating a list of documents in Excel by extracting the path information out of a library such as this so I'm gonna go...