6 How to autonumber exhibits with the SEQ field
A reader came to me recently with a dilemma: He needed to create a document that had lettered exhibits sprinkled throughout, in a format that looked like this:

Okay, so far, so good. Autonumbering I can handle.
But here was his other requirement: He wanted to be able to generate a list of the exhibits at the end of the document (including the description of the exhibits as shown above) so his assistant would know what documents to gather and attach.
At first, I proposed making the list at the bottom of the document first, then cross-referencing within the document. But he countered that the exhibits within the document would be dynamic. In other words, he might be adding or subtracting exhibits within the document, so they needed to autonumber within the document itself.
That's another wrinkle.
I had to think about this one for a bit. It's not impossible (in fact, it's not even really all that hard), but it does require deploying several techniques: