Thank you Guessed--that made the difference for the automatic paragraph numbering. Allow me to give a bit more context for the second part.

The source document is formatted like this:

Exhibit A Declaration of Person A

Exhibit B US Govt Report

Exhibit C New York Times article

While being drafted, the target document contains sentences like these:

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According to A, this thing happened. Declaration of Person A. This thing has been reported by the US government as well. US Govt Report. Recent reports also suggest this thing is happening. NYTimes Article.
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While drafting, the writers prefer to keep citations to static names (i.e., Declaration of Person A). It's time-consuming and annoying, though, to go through at the end of the drafting process and replace each "Declaration of Person A" with "Exhibit A," or "Exhibit B," etc. Even with find and replace some of the briefs have dozens of exhibits. I'm wondering if it's possible through macros to automatically replace static citation names with their relative places on the source document.

It needs to be dynamic, though, because sometimes a new piece of evidence will need to be included late in the drafting process, and that changes all the subsequent exhibit numbers.

Does this sound possible? I'm a bit confused about how AutoText would help with cross-referencing to replace static citations with exhibit numbers. That said, being able to type "declA" and then hit enter to get 1/1/2021 Declaration of Person A is definitely useful.