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SharePoint 2013 AutoNumber Documents?

I am setting up a new SharePoint page. We would like to have the documents use a standardized numbering system. Is there a way for SharePoint to do this? ....or do we have to manually type them in.,.?
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Can you describe what type of format you are looking to do?

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Something along the lines of a three character Dept. Prefix like COL for Collections, ACC for Accounting, etc... followed by a unique three digit numeric designator.... 001, 002, etc...

The unique numbers would be by dept.... so, you could have one COL-001 and one ACC-001, but you could not have two COL-001's

Sounds like it's not within SharePoint's Out of the Box functionality?
I would agree that's it's not ootb. The department prefix based on another column is easy, but the serial integer is difficult. I was once involved in a thread that achieved that sort of thing with SharePoint Designer, but search as I might I can't find that thread. (It was about 4 years ago on EE)
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