# Append pages to a document

Add pages to a filed document — by upload, scan, or QCard — including the Insert at beginning switch, the PDF/TIFF rule, and the new major version every append creates.

Product: content-central · Versions: 7.x · Audience: user · Time: 10 minutes · Last verified: 2026-09-05

Canonical: https://help.ademero.com/content-central/documents/append-pages-to-a-document

**At the end of this guide, the page that arrived late — the signed last sheet, the missing exhibit — is part of its document, at the end or the beginning, with the original preserved one version back.**

## Append by upload

1. In the document's actions menu, open the **Append** submenu and choose **Upload**.

2. The dialog opens on its **Append** segment (it shares a dialog with Replace — the segment control at the top says which you're doing).

3. Two decisions:
   - The file — **PDF or TIFF** ("Supported: PDF, TIFF"); page-based appending needs page-based formats. A Word file that must join a document becomes a PDF first.
   - **Insert at beginning** — off, pages go to the end; on, "Add pages at the start of the document instead of the end" — for the cover page that should have been first.

4. Confirm. **What you should see:** "Document appended successfully!" — and the document now has a new **major version** containing all pages; the pre-append version stays in [Version History](/content-central/documents/read-a-documents-history-and-revisions), where the action reads **Appended**.

## Append by scanner

The same submenu offers **DirectScan™** — scan the new pages straight onto the document — and **Get QCard**, which prints an *Append QCard* aimed at this document: put it on top of the pages at any batch scanner, and the capture pipeline appends them, no computer at the scanner. (The QCard dialog offers the same **End** / **Beginning** position choice.)

## When Append is refused

- Appending edits the file, so it needs the **Allow Document Editing** permission — "You do not have permission to edit this document" is the permissions answer.
- A document **checked out by another user** refuses until check-in.

## Append, or its neighbors?

| The situation | The tool |
| --- | --- |
| These pages *join* what's there | **Append** — this page |
| This file *replaces* what's there | [Replace](/content-central/documents/replace-a-document-or-upload-a-revision) — same dialog, other segment, with a warning that means it |
| The new file is a revision of the whole document | [Upload Revision](/content-central/documents/replace-a-document-or-upload-a-revision) |
| The pages are a *separate* document that belongs nearby | Capture it normally — same folder, related field values |

**Success check:** append a one-page PDF to a test document with **Insert at beginning** on — the document opens with the new page first, and Version History shows **Appended** at a new major version, with the prior version downloadable below it.

## What's next

- [Replace a document or upload a revision](https://help.ademero.com/content-central/documents/replace-a-document-or-upload-a-revision)
- [Read a document's history and revisions](https://help.ademero.com/content-central/documents/read-a-documents-history-and-revisions)