Help making a auto number table in Office

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Bardschant

I was tring to make a table in Office that had numbers in the column and
would automatically write the next number whenever a new row was added. is
there a way to make a table in office autodate the numbers in the first
column?
 
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Joseph Meehan

There is a couple of possible issues.

First when you say next number do you mean you want the numbers to be in
order (1 2 3 4 ...) or just unique (547 5 522 749 ...) ?

Second is there a chance that a record will be deleted? What do you
want then? Can the number be reused or must it always be a "new" number?
It is going to happen and someone is going to see a missing number and get
all worried about it or they will "assume" that if the last record is # 654
and the one before it is 653 that there are exactly 654 records.

There are different preferred ways to generate numbers depending on your
needs.
 
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