Arcus Guide

Guide Bringing your charts in

Import a file into Arcus

  1. Click Open chart in the top bar.
Open chart in the top bar
Open chart, in the tools at the top right
  1. Click Import at the top of the Saved Charts window.
The Import button at the top of the Saved Charts window
Import sits at the top of the Saved Charts window
  1. Drop your file onto the window, or click Choose file. To paste an export instead of opening a file, click Paste chart text.
The import window, with the drop zone and the paste route below it
The import window, with the drop zone and the paste route under it
  1. A spreadsheet adds one step here. Arcus guesses which column is the name, the date, the time and the place, shows you the first few rows as it is reading them, and waits for you to confirm or correct the guess.
  1. Check the list that comes back. Charts already in your library are marked and left out, and so is any chart the file lists twice. Type a folder name if you want the new charts kept together.
The review step, with the folder the new charts will land in
Name a folder and the new charts land in it together
  1. Click Import.
The Import button at the foot of the review step, which commits the charts
The count on the button is what is about to be cast

Several hundred charts take a few seconds. Arcus takes one file at a time, which is normally one trip, since a chart file holds the whole database. If your charts are split across several files, repeat the steps for each.

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