# My data won't load or looks wrong

> Every data failure now says what went wrong, either as a red toast on the Data tab or as a message naming the series it could not use. An edit that fails is never half-applied — the chart keeps the last data that worked.

> **Tip:** The table has its own history: ⌘Z (Ctrl Z) steps back through your cell edits and ⇧⌘Z redoes them, without touching anything on the Figma canvas.

> **Note:** Some chart types never get a table at all. Scatter, box plot, candlestick and theme river hold each point as a set of coordinates that no grid can show honestly, so their data is edited as JSON by design.

> **Note:** A refused edit leaves the chart exactly as it was. There is no half-applied state to clean up, so it is always safe to try the same edit again once you have fixed the value.

> **Careful:** Reset Data replaces everything in the table with the chart type's default sample data. Export your numbers first if you might want them back.

## Steps

1. When an import fails, a red toast names the reason. Click it to dismiss it, or leave it — it clears itself after a few seconds.
2. Could not detect format means the plugin read your text as neither CSV nor JSON. Paste one header row followed by data rows, or a JSON array or object — nothing else is understood.
3. A message like Row 4 has 3 columns, expected 4 points at a ragged spreadsheet. Give every row the same number of columns — usually a stray comma inside a label, or a merged cell — and paste again.
4. If an edit is refused with Chart data has no series or Series 2 is missing a values array, the change would have left nothing to draw, so it was not applied. Add the missing series or values and the chart updates.
5. A warning that a value is not numeric is not a rejection — the cell is kept and drawn as typed. Strip currency symbols, percent signs and thousands separators if you wanted a number there.
6. If a notice reads Couldn't open the visual editor for this chart's data, the table could not be built from this chart's options. Edit the raw JSON shown underneath it — that still updates the chart.
7. If a linked source stops updating, look for Auto-refresh skipped: the linked source did not return valid chart data. Open the source, check it still returns the columns the chart expects, then refresh it by hand.

_Topics: data, import, errors_

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