Am a newbie. When i created a forum and categories it look like this

But i want it like this

You can get it to look close to that, but thats version 4. Version 5 will look somewhat different. Assuming, however, that you may be referring to the layout, open the theme editor (click your name in the top right, then theme editor), and click 'Page Layouts'. Once in there change the 'Forum Index' setting to 'Table'

It worked. Thank you

And i am testing things out and right now the view of topics looks like this . Where the author name and time is displayed twice

But i want it exactly like this . With title followed by author name and time and then replies and view and last contributor. Also i don't want content from the topic to be shown.

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This is also a page layout. There is a topic list one present