lostpatrol1,
If you are using RSLogix500 to program your Micrologix1000, then there are true Sequencer commands available, SQC (Sequencer Compare, SQL (Sequencer Load), and SQO (Sequencer Output). Let me say here and now that I have never found a practical way to use a Sequencer function in a PLC program. I am sure that is because a PLC usually controls a process that has many input conditions that change and cause subsequent changes in the outputs, where as a Sequencer is a fixed set of steps that executesthe output the same way EVERY cycle. So if you are controlling a dishwasher, then maybe a Sequencer instruction is appropriate. That is the only successful application I have ever seen for a PLC Sequencer, but that was for training in a PLC classs at the local community college. Mostly I have seen people try to use it, then find that there are so many EXCEPTIONS to the normal "sequence", that they give up in frustration, and just program in a subroutine (another ladder "File" in RSLogix) for each process condition, and forget the sequencer as being a lot of trouble for not much gain.
Where I have a sequential set of steps to executes, what I like to do is set up "stepper" relays, one for each step of the process. Then at the end of each routine (say Step 1), I unlatch (reset) the relay Step 1 and on the same rung I latch (set) Step 2 relay, and so on until the end. This helps in troubleshooting the program, for is is easy to find what Step it is working on, or in what Step a problem occurred.