Setting up a Counter Field in Acrobat forms...

Hi everyone and thanks for helping,
I want to create a field in an acrobat form that will add (n=n+1) one to a field every time the acrobat file is opened. I suppose that this would require that everytime one closes the file, that the counter field gets one added to it, or everytime the acrobat file is opened it adds one to the previous value. Either way would work.
Essentially, what I want is a serial# or invoice# automatically generated each time the acrobat file is opened.
Is this possible?

Thanks for your kind reply.
Now I dont expect you to teach me, but where can I find a guide to learn how to javascript for acrobat?
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