batch import player roster

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Rather then trying to explain by typing I made this quick screencast for my question

what am I missing here?

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[FTMSupport]

It looks like you have "special characters" in the data you are copy / pasting. (There are certainly tabs in there, and we don't know what else may be in there). The batch import expects spaces as delimiters, not tabs or other special characters.

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hrmmmm Ill take a look at that

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the confusing part is that some of the names work when importing multiple with no rhyme nor reason...in the list I could see no difference between any of the names....they were in 2 columns with a space between first and last

I fixed it very simply by removing all the spaces between the names and then re-adding 1 space between Firstname LastName....I imported 1 full division ( 61 players ) and split them to teams in approx 5 minutes

[mprusak]

I've noticed this behavior as well. Like you just stated, if you delete the spacing then add a single space this tends to alleviate the problem. Its kind of finicky.

What I have done is create a simple template in Excel that I can copy paste the names and then it gives me a clean output file with names, numbers, batting yes/no, right/left, etc to copy into the batch load area.