Numbering, indexing or putting alphabetic identifiers on pages of documents is a very old and very useful organizing practice. Bates numbering feature makes this practice as easy as a few keypresses. This does not just save time, it also ensures each and every page or your document is numbers and can be identified easily. This is important, especially when you have a lot of references and study going on about the documents.

This easy numbering system is available with Corel Wordperfect and Microsoft Word.

Bates numbering is a welcome feature that is used in many different document types like the medical reports, legal reports and you can use it for your thesis or books you are producing. It is an efficient numbering system that can help you identify the folio or the page number instantly. You can even reference it if you are about to study and provide any suggestions, conclusions, references or examples.

So how does Bates numbering system work? It is quite efficient. It provides you many ways of customizing the numbers. You can add prefix and suffix and numbers for value. You can also choose number of digits that the number will have. You will also have the power to choose beginning number the Bates numbering will be allocated. You can number entire file or folder, so imagine number of thousands of pages is being done in a few seconds or minutes depending on the size. You will need to arrange files in the folder according to hierarchy for perfect numbering

You can decide the location where you would want the number to appear. For example, right hand top corner, bottom middle, left hand top corner or somewhere else. All you need to do is select the location. Is it possible to remove the number? Yes, that too with a simple clicks in the menu of the documents. This would prove especially useful if it is an ongoing process where these documents come and go.