# Display atom index visually

**URL:** <https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/display-atom-index-visually/7234>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [November 20, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/display-atom-index-visually/7234 "2025-11-20T18:28:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Juanes](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/juanes/32/2256_2.png) [@Juanes](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/Juanes)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/display-atom-index-visually/7234/1 "2025-11-20T18:28:33Z")

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I find myself often wanting to visually see which atom is which index. IQmol allows you to see the indexes on top of the atom. Does Avogadro have this ability? When I look up Help → Index I only see the options to either Color or Select by index but not display the index.

 ![Screenshot 2025-11-20 at 11.24.47 AM](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/uploads/default/original/2X/a/ae2e46d24314ee9adcdcbb8b76af5570e622114c.jpeg)

~ Juan

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**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/display-atom-index-visually/7234/2 "2025-11-20T19:18:24Z")

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Click ‘label’ and then you can customize what you want on the atoms, bonds, etc.

Hopefully I’ll be able to finish the YouTube walk-through on that today.

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**Author:** ![system](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/uploads/default/original/1X/93fe5a56d10b304e678127e54139c28cde211662.png) [@system](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/display-atom-index-visually/7234/3 "2025-11-23T19:19:09Z")

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