ARC15: Butel re-orders pasted frequencies???

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Hello. Perhaps I missed this in the owner's manual, but when I paste frequencies into the ARC-R15 program it automatically re-orders the frequencies into numerical sequence from the lowest frequency to the highest. I want it to maintain the order from the .CSV file that I'm copying from as I have them organized as I prefer with UHF frequencies sprinkled in amongst VHF freqs. I've tried using Butel's CSV import function as well as copying a column of frequencies straight out of Excel but I always get an ordering result I don't want. I'm not finding a program preference anywhere to address this issue, nor anything in the manual that's helpful. Anyone else having this problem?
Thanks for the help!
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Not in front of any Butel software at the moment but look in its settings to see if there is some sort of auto sort feature enabled.
 

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Not in front of any Butel software at the moment but look in its settings to see if there is some sort of auto sort feature enabled.
Yea, thanks. I did poke around everywhere I could think of, but no joy. I’ve used Butel products in the past for other scanners without issue, so I’m pretty stumped at the moment.
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I tried version 1.1 build 1 and it preserves the frequency order from the copy I do from the CSV mapper window.

When does it change the order, when you paste the frequencies it immediately are in ascending order? That seems like an impossible task to do by a software as it have to paste the copy in the order as it was copied. It can only change the order in a second step, when you click on the "Frequency" label at the top of the column.

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Are you using Paste or Paste Frequencies ? Paste Frequencies will sort. Use Paste / Ctrl v to avoid sorting.


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Ok, thanks Gommert, that does work. I had tried ’Paste’ earlier, but I think what happened is before that I had first used ‘Paste Frequencies’, and then seeing that it had auto-sorted I immediately tried again using ‘Paste’ (without going back to Excel to re-copy) and I got the same unwanted result. I assume what’s happening is the program is doing the auto-sort in RAM when you do a ‘Paste Frequencies’, and so that order held when I tried again with a ‘Paste‘ right away.
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Are you using Paste or Paste Frequencies ? Paste Frequencies will sort. Use Paste / Ctrl v to avoid sorting.


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FYI, I don’t see any mention of ‘Paste Frequencies’ doing an auto-sort in the manual. In fact, the example shown of using ‘Paste Frequencies‘ when copying data from a web page shows the pasted result as unsorted.
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FYI, I don’t see any mention of ‘Paste Frequencies’ doing an auto-sort in the manual. In fact, the example shown of using ‘Paste Frequencies‘ when copying data from a web page shows the pasted result as unsorted.
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What, did you actually read the manual :). The sorting was added later as requested by other user.

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