# Change default rows shown?

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/change-default-rows-shown/2390>\
**Category:** Support and Helpdesk\
**Created:** [July 3, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/change-default-rows-shown/2390 "2025-07-03T13:48:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![mebrett](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/mebrett/32/863_2.png) [@mebrett](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/mebrett)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/change-default-rows-shown/2390/1 "2025-07-03T13:48:53Z")

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This may be a very basic question. Is there a way to change the number of default rows/records show for a project? I almost always want it to be 25, and while it doesn't take that long to click it would be nice to just set it and forget it.

Is this something I could do as a preference, rather than editing the base code?

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**Author:** ![colognella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@colognella](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/colognella)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/change-default-rows-shown/2390/2 "2025-07-03T15:01:38Z")

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I did not try if this influences the default value, but there seems to be a Setting to set the different values: [Running OpenRefine | OpenRefine](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/running)

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**Author:** ![b2m](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/b2m/32/139_2.png) [@b2m](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/b2m)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/change-default-rows-shown/2390/3 "2025-07-03T15:01:58Z")

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> [@mebrett](#):
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> This may be a very basic question

Not so basic as you might think 😉

Here is a list of preferences that you can configure in OpenRefine: [Running OpenRefine | OpenRefine](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/running#preferences)

One of them is `ui.browsing.pageSize`, where you can configure the available page sizes to choose from. For example `[1,5,10,25,50,100]`.

Currently the value 10 is used, except for lists of page sizes, where the smallest value is \> 10. Then the smallest value in the list is used.

So you could for example use `[25,50,100]` as page sizes and then 25 would be used as default.  
But you loose the ability to paginate smaller values.