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How do I create a label macro for "bates numbering" documents

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mascottex

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Apr 6, 2010, 11:02:01 AM4/6/10
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Work at a law office and we are looking for a way to create a label macro
that will allow us to identify and number legal documents for attaching to
discovery documents. In the "old" days a Bates stamping device was used but
we know of a form that was created in WordPerfect so I am hoping one can be
created in Word.

Jay Freedman

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Apr 6, 2010, 3:23:28 PM4/6/10
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See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/NumberDocs.htm.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Apr 6, 2010, 6:12:04 PM4/6/10
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No, that numbers documents. Bates stamping is used the number the pages of
documents.

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Jay Freedman

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Apr 6, 2010, 7:59:05 PM4/6/10
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A Bates stamp will number anything you hit with it. I page-numbered
many 1000+ page manuscripts that way. But...

From the statement that this was to "identify and number legal
documents" I gathered that it was being used to put one number on each
document. Maybe mascottex will come back and explain further.

Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Apr 6, 2010, 10:18:01 PM4/6/10
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In my work I deal with references to a lot of "Bates-stamped" documents; the
formatting of the numbering can be wildly original, but in general a set of
documents is numbered sequentially, each page getting a different number and
each number uniquely identifying a given page (the numbers aren't repeated).
It appears that the more tenuous a case they have, the more attorneys try to
overwhelm the other side with documents during discovery.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

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>A Bates stamp will number anything you hit with it. I page-numbered
> many 1000+ page manuscripts that way. But...
>
> From the statement that this was to "identify and number legal
> documents" I gathered that it was being used to put one number on each
> document. Maybe mascottex will come back and explain further.
>
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:12:04 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
> <sbar...@mvps.org> wrote:
>

>>No, that numbers documents. Bates stamping is used to number the pages of

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