I don't know of a reason to do so. The few panos I've done, I select a set in Bridge (they're always adjacent when time-sorted) and tell Photoshop to do its thing. I presume other image processing programs are the same, or similar.

I don't know Nikonspeak, but suppose you could reset the frame counter prior to shooting your pano sequence to give it unique numbering. They likely as not have a way to tag images in camera, too. IIRC all my digicams have in-camera editing.

Good luck with your purchase.
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