Importing Problems
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If your file is failing to import, check this important tips:
- Check if the file is supported (Supported File Formats);
- Remove full empty columns (without data and header);
- Remove full empty rows/lines;
- Remove all non date, text or number data type column (like images);
- Remove merged cells;
- Remove or format correctly date column not identified by the spreadsheet;
- Remove unknown, strange or control characters;
- Remove special characters and dots (.) from headers titles;
- Remove non-mathematical and complex expressions (Expressions);
- If using headers, fill it for all columns;
- Check for data type mixed columns. All cells in a column must be the same data type;
- Check if some column its not exceeding the size limit (See limits);
- Check if the file its not exceeding the columns limit (See limits);
- Check if the file its not exceeding the rows limit (See limits);
- Specific for CSV files:
- Check if selected file encoding, column and decimal separator match the file;
- Try to save as XLS or XLSX to import;