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:
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:
Here’s a little Microsoft Word fields experiment with the SEQ field – incrementing paragraph numbers with the ability to reference the current and previous paragraph numbers, all combined with AutoText.
If your law firm does litigation work, you’ve probably prepared lots of discovery. And you may have wondered if there’s any way you can avoid typing the phrase “Interrogatory No. X” in Microsoft Word over and over again and get that X to be an automatically incrementing number. If so, the answer is, yes, you can!
Click through for a complete tutorial on how to use field codes in Microsoft Word to automatically number interrogatories, requests for production, requests for admission, or other legal discovery.
I’m always gratified when a solution I’ve come up with (and published) is helping people in the “real world”. One reader shows how he uses my SEQ technique so his whole office can autonumber discovery requests easily.
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