Add page numbers to your PDF
Adding page numbers to your PDF with Adobe Acrobat helps you navigate through your documents more easily. Quickly find what you need and jump to the right page number. Select a PDF file to get started.
All you need to do to add page numbers to a PDF is:
Adding page numbers to your PDF with Adobe Acrobat helps you navigate through your documents more easily. Quickly find what you need and jump to the right page number. Select a PDF file to get started.
You can add your page numbers to the left or right side or the centre of the page with Adobe Acrobat, giving you that extra bit of formatting flexibility.
With Adobe Acrobat, you can add and edit page numbers in documents up to 100MB. Choose to number a range of pages, or the whole document.
Looking to further organise your PDF files? Explore Adobe Acrobat's range of free online tools to help you manage and edit your documents – whether you want to reorder, rotate, add or delete pages.
Adobe Acrobat PDF tools are accessible from any browser, whether you use Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome. There’s no need to download any extra software, making the whole process hassle-free.
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Our free Adobe Acrobat tool allows you to add page numbers to headers and footers in PDFs. It also allows you to:
If you're looking to edit your PDFs further, you can sign up to a 7-day free trial of Acrobat Pro to access the advanced toolbar.
If you have a PDF with existing page numbers in it and need to amend or fix those, you can do so for free here. After uploading your PDF file above, go to Number Pages and you’ll get two options: 1) Replace existing numbers, 2) Remove all page numbers. Option 1 will allow you to amend and update the pagination on the PDF.
If you’re working in Acrobat Pro and you need to amend page numbers, you can do this by navigating to Organise pages and Page labels where you can specify your desired page range. Learn how to renumber pages in a PDF here.
Page numbers on PDFs can appear different when you look at the page thumbnail against the actual document. That’s because the thumbnail adds a number to every page in the document from the first one, regardless of whether it has any content on it. That means front matter – such as the title page, contents page, and foreword or preface – will all be given page numbers.
If you want the page numbering to begin on the actual contents of the PDF rather than the first page of the document, you can create a new numbering sequence.