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 Cumulus maintains a daily file of the highs and lows of each day, as well as a few other nuggets of information.  The data contained in the file are used to build the graphs.
 ==Editing in Cumulus==
-The last command in '''Edit''' menu is ''dayfile.txt''.  This is a text editor, and works best when at full screen. Click the ''Help'' button for detailed instructions.
+The last command in '''Edit''' menu is ''dayfile.txt''.  This is a text editor, and works best when at full screen.
-You can use this editor to correct individual values by overtyping.  The same editor will '''Create missing''' complete days, or import earlier observations into dayfile.txt, in both cases reading and calculating from [[Monthly_log_files]], and the procedure is explained in that Wiki topic in greater detail than is possible in the ''Help''.  If just some fields are missing from a particular row (meteorological day) on day file, then there is a [[Monthly_log_files#Using_Monthly_logs_to_deal_with_shorter_.28or_incomplete.29_dayfile.txt_records_for_particular_dates | workaround]] as at all current versions (up to 1.9.4) you can only import from the [[Monthly_log_files]] if the whole date (row) is missing in ''dayfile.txt''.
+You can use this editor to correct individual values by overtyping.
-'''Note for version 1.9.3 only:''' System Date Formats like month/day/year, or those using dd-mm-yyyy, just might in some cases be affected by a bug in 1.9.3 that can cause incorrect date order for records (dayfile.txt uses dd/mm/yy and all records should be in ascending chronological order) when you use ''Create missing'', the bugs are believed fixed in version 1.9.4.
+The '''Create missing''' button will insert missing rows (complete days) by reading and calculating from [[Monthly_log_files]] (a technique that is useful for importing, and processing, pre-Cumulus observations, and that procedure is explained in the [[Monthly_log_files |Wiki topic]] in greater detail than is possible in the ''Help'').  Click the ''Help'' button for detailed instructions. Cumulus Help is comprehensive and explains how a list of inserted records is produced.
+If just some fields are missing from a particular row (meteorological day) on day file, then there is a [[Monthly_log_files#Using_Monthly_logs_to_deal_with_shorter_.28or_incomplete.29_dayfile.txt_records_for_particular_dates | workaround]] as at all current versions (up to 1.9.4) you can only import from the [[Monthly_log_files]] if the whole date (row) is missing in ''dayfile.txt''.
+'''Note for version 1.9.3 only:''' Create missing might in some cases be affected by a bug in 1.9.3 that can cause incorrect date order for records (dayfile.txt uses dd/mm/yy  or dd-mm-yy and all records should be in ascending chronological order), any bugs are believed fixed in version 1.9.4.
 ==Manipulation outside Cumulus==