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 #Click '''Export''' button below the separator, complete the 'Save as ...' for a ''text'' file, and wait a couple of minutes (depending on size of file).
 #Open resulting file in a text editor and see hints in [[Monthly log files]] on how to convert between formats.
-#For [[dayfile.txt]], you can create missing data from the newly created monthly log files, but you still may wish to insert breaks at rollover time in your raw EasyWeather table, possibly adding calculation of maximua or minima to such meteorological day groups, so you can scan though each day to check what has been created in dayfile.txt and edit as required.
+#For [[dayfile.txt]], you can create missing data from the newly created monthly log files, but you still may wish to insert breaks at rollover time in your raw EasyWeather table, possibly adding calculation of maxima or minima to such meteorological day groups, so you can scan though each day to check what has been created in dayfile.txt and edit as required.
 If you were archiving your Easyweather.dat files, you may need to repeat the whole above process for futher source files, until you have the whole period you want.  When Sfws did this process, he tried to merge the exported files before creating the Cumulus logs, but dealing with 2 full years of frequent pre-Cumulus observations meant he had a massive spreadsheet with almost a million cells, and it made separation into day by day or month by month for feeding into the Cumulus logs more difficult.