This guide describes how to complete various tasks and functions within Word that may be useful for legal writing. I want to be able to crete a legal pleading in Pages.By this I mean that my pages have numbers and 2 lines going down verticaly on the left side of the paper. This document provides instructions for properly formatting a legal pleading to be filed with a court. Does anyone know if its possible to create pleading paper aka ruled line legal pages in Pages? The pages have numbers 1-28 down the left side. For every PDF uploaded, most courts require the first page to have a caption with all pertinent case information. (b) Paper and Font Size. Edit Pleading paper. The basics of pleading paper are having 28 lines down the left side of the page, and using an easy to read font.