How to show the record number in a MS Access report table?

Question

I\'m using MS Access to make a small piece of software for an office. When we insert a record the record ID does not always follow the sequence of natural numbers, starting

Answer 1

I assume your table name is inventory:

SELECT DCOUNT("[Description]","[inventory]","[Description]<='" & [Description] & "'") AS rank, inventory.*
FROM inventory
ORDER BY [Description]

DCOUNT function counts the number of rows that satisfy the a given criteria. In this case we count the number of rows that are less than the current row. Things will work if the column you use has unique values.