# No record numbers

**URL:** https://discourse.jabref.org/t/no-record-numbers/1847
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [December 17, 2019, 8:21am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/no-record-numbers/1847 "2019-12-17T08:21:21Z")
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### Author: ![ljicsinszky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/ljicsinszky/32/768_2.png) [@ljicsinszky](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/ljicsinszky)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2019, 8:21am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/no-record-numbers/1847/1 "2019-12-17T08:21:22Z")

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Before v5 the first column was the record number. It is a great help when you have numerous records. Or just for checking the number of imported new records. How can the record numbers be seen in v5?  
Not working: ‘#’, ‘entryset’ and ‘Ids’.  
Not working in current beta, too.

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### Author: ![robyn.peltier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@robyn.peltier](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/robyn.peltier)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/no-record-numbers/1847/2 "2020-08-26T21:01:36Z")

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I just added the “Index” field to display in the entry table and it numbers the items.