<p dir="ltr">On Feb 27, 2016 13:48, "Chris Nordstrom" <<a href="mailto:cfnordstrom@gmail.com">cfnordstrom@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I am not aware of these bugs in Excel that were mentioned. After creating my CSV file, I used a raw file viewer and did not see any extra characters or missing characters. I am using Excel now to edit the CSV files and they import fine. Is it true that there has to be a default value in rToneFreq? And what about the errors I get when there are columns with header text but no data in the column? Could this be caused by Excel?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yes, you need to provide appropriate defaults if you're not editing with Chirp (when you edit a CSV with Chirp, it will fill in all the defaults for you). Here's a quote from the documentation I linked earlier:</p>
<p dir="ltr">"Field values must be in the original format and one of the accepted values for the column type."</p>
<p dir="ltr">Excel is a generic spreadsheet program. If you want to use it to edit Chirp CSV files, you will need to handle the data validation yourself to ensure it stays in a format compatible with Chirp. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Tom KD7LXL </p>