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Page numbers seem like a small thing until a 50-page report circulates without them and everyone is talking about "the section with the chart" instead of page references. Add them in under a minute. ## How to Add Page Numbers to PDF 1. Go to [pdfhub24.com/add-page-numbers](/add-page-numbers) 2. Upload your PDF 3. Choose position: top-left, top-centre, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-centre, bottom-right 4. Set starting page number (default is 1) 5. Choose whether to skip the first page (useful for title/cover pages) 6. Select font size and style 7. Click **Add Page Numbers** 8. Download ## Position Conventions **Bottom centre:** Standard for most academic and business documents. Universally recognisable as a page number. **Bottom right:** Common in legal documents and formal reports. Slightly more prominent than centre. **Top right:** Some academic style guides require this (particularly older APA formats). **Bottom left:** Often used for verso (left-side) pages in two-sided printing layouts. ## Starting Page Number Options **Start at 1:** Standard for most documents. **Start at a different number:** Useful when this PDF is part of a larger document and you need continuous numbering (e.g., this section starts at page 47). **Skip the first page:** When the document has a cover page that shouldn't be numbered. The count still starts at 1 internally but page 1 of the cover isn't stamped. ## After Merging Multiple Documents If you've merged several PDFs, each section may have had its own internal page numbers (or none). After merging, run the combined document through the page numbering tool to apply consistent sequential numbers across the entire merged document. ## Roman Numerals for Front Matter For academic documents with a preface, contents page, and introduction before the main text starts, you might want Roman numerals (i, ii, iii) on the front matter and Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3) starting with Chapter 1. Currently the tool applies one number style to the entire document — if you need mixed styles, add them as two separate operations to two separate files, then merge.