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 ==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.  Cumulus Help is comprehensive.
+You can use this editor to:
+*correct individual values by overtyping,
+*use '''delete''' key to remove an entire day (e.g. if you get a 'duplicate' error message),
+*use '''insert''' key to add one or more missing rows (complete days) manually,
+*use '''Create missing''' button to insert missing rows (complete days) by reading from [[Monthly_log_files]] and automatically calculating the best approximations for each field for those missing days.
+If you do have a 'duplicate' error, you need to decide which row to ''delete'', and whether to copy any values from that row into the row you are keeping to ensure the correct extremes are retained.
-You can use this editor to correct individual values by overtyping.
+For ''Create missing'' a list of inserted records is produced in [[dayfileeditlog.txt]]. If just some fields are wrong in 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 use 'Create missing' to read from the [[Monthly_log_files]] if the whole day (a row starting with a date) is missing in ''dayfile.txt''.
-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). Click the ''Help'' button for detailed instructions. Cumulus Help is comprehensive and explains how a list of inserted records is produced. The procedure is explained in the [[Monthly_log_files | Wiki topic]] in greater context detail than is possible in the Cumulus ''Help''.
+The procedure for importing, and processing, pre-Cumulus observations is explained in [[Monthly_log_files |this Wiki topic]].
-If just some fields are wrong in 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 use 'Create missing' to read from the [[Monthly_log_files]] if the whole day (a row starting with a date) 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)